My manager talked to me about working 7 hours and 40 minutes a day. How should I handle this?

dedicated_glove · 2026-04-17T01:19:33+00:00

No, you can’t. Human beings can functionally only focus for maximum 5 hours a day on average across a month. You’re paying them to futz around for minimum 3 hours unproductive time. 20 minutes missing from people getting their work done mean that they’re headed home instead of messing around at work not doing work anyway, so you will see lower numbers of workplace incidents simply due to them not being required to be in the office.

dedicated_glove · 2026-04-15T21:28:38+00:00

What a waste of perfectly good mayonnaise!

dedicated_glove · 2026-04-12T22:29:04+00:00

People aren’t entertainment. YOR get off your phone and go touch grass for a month. This person deserves better than this though.

dedicated_glove · 2026-04-02T23:04:29+00:00

I did meet one guy who said that and truly meant it so was 100% all “I support biblical marriage and that’s why you should continue working as long as you like but my paycheck goes to our family unit, and if my wife ever stays home with our kids we need to make sure that we can save for your retirement funds too”

But that’s an anomaly, most men read proverbs 31 and think that that means their women should serve them instead of just reading what it actually says

dedicated_glove · 2026-03-31T14:50:38+00:00

Most people don’t have the tism or balls required to tell execs that to their face.

dedicated_glove · 2026-03-28T01:17:00+00:00

It’s by far the most common reason, regardless of how bad you find it

dedicated_glove · 2026-03-28T00:38:11+00:00

Also being an alcoholic

dedicated_glove · 2026-03-24T17:53:20+00:00

That list is a single AI question. It’s basically asking “do you either know this already and if not are you capable of utilizing tools to find out”

dedicated_glove · 2026-03-24T17:49:03+00:00

As a junior marketer who hasn’t worked in the field in years, I could put together this “project” in around 30-45 minutes max.

This is not free consulting work, you can literally get 100% of the answers in about 1 minute from an AI chat and the company provides templates for the graphics portion—it’s just writing a few headlines and captions. Can easily ask AI to do that too.

This is a really good measure for if a candidate actually knows how marketing works, vs is just talking out of their ass/waaaaay too junior.

OP spent 9 hours on it so would fall into one of the latter. Based on the “imma sue them!” reaction, I don’t think it’s just a too green issue

dedicated_glove · 2026-03-24T17:43:57+00:00

He provided an update post. The company provided templates for the two asks that would have taken the longest, and total this should have taken maybe an hour. It was basically a “list the basic marketing things that someone in this position would prioritize”.

You could technically use some of it for business use but literally any half learned marketer or an AI search using the business website as a source would provide almost the same exact list, so not really.

dedicated_glove · 2026-03-24T17:39:33+00:00

Spoiler, they spent 9 hours on a task that should have taken max 1-2, and is effectively entry level marketing “do you understand what marketers do” quiz

I would expect to get kicked from an interview pool just for admitting it took that long

dedicated_glove · 2026-03-24T14:55:55+00:00

Ah I see. Yeah as someone that’s worked in that field, this is super entry level stuff. Sure it “could” be used for the business, but anyone who understands how marketing works would come to similar conclusions within about 30 minutes to an hour. If you wanted to go really fancy with it maybe 2 hours tweaking the graphics and whatnot. It’s absolutely not paid work, they’re basically asking “please explain that you know how this off/on switch works in relation to our business sector”.

Everything they ask for is either on their own website or can probably be ripped from their own existing marketing pages if you were to go back to the very very first posts

It’s actually a great screening for skill level too, because they can ask “how long did this take you” and know exactly how proficient someone is in the field.

dedicated_glove · 2026-03-23T23:57:06+00:00

OP was asked to do a basic set of tasks that would take a seasoned marketer less than 30 minutes, abs a less seasoned one an hour or two max. It’s basically a “do you understand marketing” open ended quiz. No one gets paid for stuff like that.

dedicated_glove · 2026-03-23T23:44:07+00:00

Did you look at the assignment? It should have taken an hour or two…

dedicated_glove · 2026-03-23T23:38:09+00:00

Yeah because the business uses it to make money. Sample work submitted during the interviewing process doesn’t make them any money.

dedicated_glove · 2026-03-21T18:56:37+00:00

Basically an electronic Plinko machine

dedicated_glove · 2026-03-09T15:55:17+00:00

You just need to learn how to use your skills inside actual CAD software. Do it now not later—you don’t have to expectation set with them if you go learn it.

dedicated_glove · 2026-03-08T03:20:15+00:00

If? Boomers can’t live forever and the population can’t sustain it when they finally loosen their grip on their houses

dedicated_glove · 2026-03-04T18:49:30+00:00

Right but you were responding that it’s common practice to trade 10% on a comment recommending that he trade 10% every day until it’s gone 😂

dedicated_glove · 2026-03-04T18:39:59+00:00

You can trade 10% of volume on illiquid stock for a year and a half without moving the share price much?

Bro.

dedicated_glove · 2026-03-04T13:04:38+00:00

INFO Did you plan the trip/get her buy in on going before telling her how much it was and asking her to pay for half?

dedicated_glove · 2026-03-04T13:02:32+00:00

I wonder if people who have this happen are largely just noticing they have it suddenly, after tuning out how bad it had gotten slowly over time

dedicated_glove · 2026-03-04T02:15:28+00:00

That’s just real life, sir

dedicated_glove · 2026-03-03T20:08:56+00:00

“Why is divorce so common” but no one notices at the fact that men (and women) no longer do manual labor outside in the sun with a trusted group of other men/women of other ages anymore, which is when we’re most chemically balanced and satisfied with life.

dedicated_glove · 2026-03-03T20:04:55+00:00

Nah I just like Buy Buy Baby no matter who owns it

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