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It’s time to stop glorifying long working hours

It's time to stop glorifying long work hours

For the last 10 months, I have been a witness to sneers and remarks from multiple people. All for leaving work on time.

One person actually seemed confused as to how I managed to do it every day: “How can you say that you have so much work when you leave on time every day?”

Here is how my silly colleague:
  • Our shift starts at 10 am and ends at 7 pm.
  • I reach at 9.30 am and get to work immediately. You reach between 10.30 to 11 am, scroll on your phone, chat with your colleagues, discuss which movie is worth watching, choose which songs you are going to be playing on the speaker at full volume, eat, talk about lunch. The next thing you know, it’s 1 pm. Time for your lunch.
  • I take a 30 minutes lunch break. You take an hour. Once you’re back, you declare that you’re sleepy. So, you while away your time talking to your colleagues about random stuff. Mostly petty gossip. Or take your afternoon nap.
  • Guess what? It’s tea time. I take a 15 minutes break. You take 45 minutes. Once you’re back, it finally dawns on you that you haven’t worked for a single minute since you came in. So you begin.
  • After working diligently the whole day, I finally get my bag and get up to leave. On time. But this doesn’t go down well with you. So you waste another 15 minutes droning about how I am leaving “early”. Same speech, same people, attacking the same person for the last 10 months.

Instead of wasting time the whole day, if you would just focus on your work, there will come a day in your life when you shall be able to leave “early” too.

Staying back late at work every day is not a sign of hard work. It only means that you are inefficient. Do get out of your head before it’s too late.
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Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

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