On Tuesday, May 31, 2016 2:31:04 PM CDT Bernardo Sulzbach wrote: > On 05/31/2016 01:59 PM, Rich Megginson wrote: > > On 05/31/2016 10:42 AM, Bernardo Sulzbach wrote: > >> On 05/31/2016 01:39 PM, Michael Catanzaro wrote: > >>> On Sun, 2016-05-29 at 17:17 -0400, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > >>>> They usually have a 60 hour a week job > >>> > >>> I hope this isn't accurate...? > >> > >> I didn't write about it myself, but was left wondering anyways. Do RH > >> programmers usually work 60 hours per week? "On average", full time > >> means 40 to 44 hours around the world. I've even seen 30 hours being > >> called full time in some job postings. > > > > It depends primarily on what country you live in. In the US, for > > salaried (as opposed to hourly) programmers, the pay is based off of a > > 45 hour work week e.g. 8am - 5pm Monday through Friday, lunch included > > (i.e. you are paid to eat lunch). Of course, this is strictly for > > accounting purposes - hardly any salaried programmers work these hours, > > and most programmers would say "well, I'm more or less working all the > > time - I get great ideas for solving problems while I'm sleeping and > > dreaming, in the shower, driving to work, on the bus, etc.", and those > > hours aren't strictly accounted for. > > From experience, in Brazil it would either be 40 (the same you wrote, > but lunch is not paid for) or 44 (+ 4 hours in Saturday mornings). > > I've worked on hourly rates, and unless you get a "change the background > color to black and text to red" task you are also going to do a > substantial amount of work when you are not "working", and these hours > are also not paid for. > > I think that Michael and I were wondering whether RH programmers were > getting 60 paid hours, not thinking about work at least 60 hours per > week. This would mean an average of 12 "office" hours (supposing they do > not work on weekends) per day. Which seems pretty aggressive to most > professionals I've come across if they are going to sit through that in > an supervised office. > > I see you write from an @redhat.com address. Are you saying that all > US-based RedHat developers get 45 hour work weeks or less? I'm talking > about what the papers say, not the actual amount of work. > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx in the US it is 40 hours, you are not paid for your lunch hour. Dennis
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