My first manager at Amazon told me I need to up my work from 50 hours to 60. I told him I was already doing 5x10 and wasn't willing to work longer hours. He asked me if I could eek out a few more hours on nights and weekends. I said I was willing to do whatever the job required in crunch time, but not work nights and weekends as a way of life. He pressed me on it; I told him I moved here to build a life with my wife, not work all the time. He then told me if that was true, I needed to find a way to do 60 hours of work in 50 hours. I kinda agreed, but not really. He eventually transferred out, and I took his job. After four different jobs with Amazon, he left for career development reasons. So, yeah, grinding it out non-stop doesn't always pay off.
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"Here, at last, is the cure for texting while driving. The millions of deaths which occur every year due to the iPhone’s ability to stream the Kim K/Ray-J video in 4G could all be avoided, every last one of them, if the government issued everyone a Seventies 911 and made sure they always left the house five minutes later than they’d wanted to. It would help if it could be made to rain as well. Full attention on the road. Guaranteed." -Jack Baruth
"Here, at last, is the cure for texting while driving. The millions of deaths which occur every year due to the iPhone’s ability to stream the Kim K/Ray-J video in 4G could all be avoided, every last one of them, if the government issued everyone a Seventies 911 and made sure they always left the house five minutes later than they’d wanted to. It would help if it could be made to rain as well. Full attention on the road. Guaranteed." -Jack Baruth