Comment by scarface_74

I don’t get this. How is someone forced to work 12 hour days? I’ve worked for almost 30 years across 10 companies from startups to BigTech and I’ve never put in those hours and I would first try to negotiate between time/cost/requirements and then just refuse.

Just refuse. What are they going to fire you if they are already so short staffed people are working 12 hour days? How much faster are they going to go by firing and replacing you with someone who doesn’t know the business or codebase?