996 - No overtime comp - Can you force the employees to work 996
To survive at Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. you need to work 12 hours a day, six days a week. That’s what billionaire Jack Ma demands of his staff at China’s biggest e-commerce platform. Ma told an internal meeting that Alibaba doesn’t need people who look forward to a typical eight-hour office lifestyle, according to a post on Alibaba’s official Weibo account. Instead, he endorsed the industry’s notorious 996 work culture — that is, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., six days a week https://github.com/996icu/996.ICU https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wired.com/story/how-github-helping-overworked-chinese-programmers/amp
Is that even legal? Why would someone ever accept that job? How much do they pay
to hour workers, it isn't. To salary workers, it is legal.
It’s very different when you’re working 996 for your own startup vs slaving away your life so that some billionaire can become even richer
995 is common in India too
Jack ma can shove the 996 in his asshole.
996 may be a stretch but 995 is totally normal. Even in some taxi companies in US.
995 also happens in some hotel companies
But those jobs are not as mentally demanding as SWE. I personally know a mechanical engineer in India doing Quality Control to have 996. But his job is to just sit and monitor. Can do some of his personal stuff there too. Although, still looks horrible to me
Jack ma is bullshit.
Nice try, @amazon. Learn how to pronounce correctly first. FYI, India population growth rate is faster than China. P/s: Not Chinese .
salaried employees are exempt from the federal Fair Labor Standards Act’s (FLSA) minimum wage and overtime pay protections.
That’s what half the tech people in the SF area claim to work. They are full of shit.
No. Fuck that.