How does one work 50+ hours a week? - Page 14

I liked Chipotle more than Qdoba up until the recent bought of food poisoning mentioned earlier in this thread.

How many hours per week do you think the average worker at Chipotle puts in?

There are crayon drawings of a sockpuppet all over one of the blockheads I've actually sat at. Sometimes they do weird things like put rice inside quesadillas. The more I think about that, the more I get angry. But I don't want anyone's berries touching my food so Chipotle, no way, too gay, as they say, in the month of may. Yay.

Probably at least 60+ if they want to be successful.

Arnach, what do you do that you enjoy so much? I'm curious.

I can't believe that working consecutive 80+ hour weeks in a knowledge or skill-based job would be effective. That is, if one is actually working those 80 hours.

From talking to people who have worked their asses off (without being wasteful of their time), I gather that the 80+ hour weeks that do happen have a lot of waiting for work involved.

Does anyone, with the possible exception of small business owners, actually work 80+ hour weeks in which they are consistently busy with regularity?

112 minimum. The only hours of the day that should be wasted not being successful are those spent sleeping, 8 hours at the most a day.

Ditto. I think alot of I-banking and law guys are quick to say that to be a bad ass success like themselves you need to work 100 hours and then in the next breath they admit they spend a lot of that time waiting around because that is the culture of the business they are in.

A lot of that time is probably spent waiting for salsa to be made though.

I agree, much of the hours thing, in many fields, is a business culture thing. Even on the other side of the grind, I am still amazed at the number of calls I get between 5-5:30 on Friday from work, or Saturday morning. People seem to figure I am always on the clock...and I'm the boss. My favorite thing is coming into work Monday and having a v-mail from someone over the weekend where they sound all pissed off because I wasn't there Sunday at 6a to answer the phone for their pissy little problem.

Such is life. There's a reason certain jobs come with big paychecks.

Guys, I'm not sure what your career/work experience is, but I've never been in a corporate environment that is not plagued by such inefficiencies. Unless you are not working in a team or hierarchical structure (e.g. free-lance or independent worker?), there is always some down time, miscommunication issues, misaligned expectations, etc... This is by no means limited to the industries you're highlighting.

Believe me, everyone would prefer they did not exist and I think we're all constantly trying to make the workflow more efficient, but people have meetings, they travel, they're on conference calls so you cannot always accurately coordinate a team's schedule to create a perfectly efficient stream of tasks. That is the necessary evil that comes with working in teams - and the larger the team, the more complex and inefficient it can be.

Hey-- I am not making any kind of judgement here. I am very much in the same situation-- it was just an observation.

Then they really should synergize their salsa paradigm to increase production efficiency.

... and be more proactive.

Often in working longer hours you do find yourself waiting for person x, y, and z to get back to you on things otherwise you cannot procede with your work, and thus the downtime, and styleforum