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by coldpie 661 days ago
> That's amazing, but all-too rare.

No, it's abusive and indicative of a failing system. We should not be celebrating overwork. If a system needs its workers to be doing double- or triple-time to function at the desired level, then the system is not working well and is on its way to failure.

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I actually think it's both.

She would spend that amount of time anyway, because "it's what she does".

It would be possible to achieve 90% of her results with maybe 70% of the time and effort that she puts in. But even at 70% it still would run into non-trivial "enforced overtime".