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Family of MSFT employee who died warn tech companies not to overwork workers

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134 points christhecaribou | 1 comments | 31 Aug 25 16:22 UTC | HN request time: 0.32s | source
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Maksadbek ◴[31 Aug 25 16:46 UTC] No.45084620[source]▶
The sad part is that no one forces you to work that hard. You're free to say NO! and work less, even this will results being laid off. Only during 1:1s your manager may highlight that deadline is soon and would be great if the project would be delivered on time, and little hint about a promo. But you set goals and force yourself to do more, single night this less sleep doesn't hurt anyone. Then there are more such nights of coding and you feel barely alive. 90% work is done, only very little left to finish. And then bam!

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I didn’t mean that this is ok, I’m for workers rights.

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1. 9rx ◴[31 Aug 25 17:34 UTC] No.45085067[source]▶
> The sad part is that no one forces you to work that hard.

Maybe I've been farming for too long, but my brain, at least, is wired to push until completion and until things are done it will consume me. If you're going to be up all night ruminating about it, you may as well actually work on it.

Of course, in farming you get a nice long break after you've pushed yourself hard. I've never worked at Microsoft, but I suspect, given what I've seen elsewhere, that as soon as it is done it's already on to the next thing, never giving workers a chance to stop for a while.