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If weekend plans involve crafting excuses, it's a red flag for sure.- Grapevine

What's the most ridiculous thing you've done to avoid work?

I once faked a power outage to get out of a deadline.

Any elaborate schemes to dodge responsibilities?

Creative excuses to bail on work

Watching ZNMD nth time - super refreshing!!!!!! 😍😍😍

Weekend plan

Analyst

Weekend

Technical Specialist

I was contacted by an HR for backend dev role. After asking all details about projects, company details, cctc and ectc. He asked "Are you comfortable working on weekends if there is any important work to be completed". 

1) Is it common in startups to work on weekends? 
2) Considering layoffs scenarios ongoing , is it worth moving from stable company to startup ? 
Note: This company is mid size startup working in hospitality and tourism

Need genuine opinion!

Any weekend plans?
Is it only me who’s just sitting idle and thinking what to do during weekends, and will end up getting bored or probably sleeping?

Any good suggestions?

Weekend plans

Software Developer

Context: I work at a startup, it's a pretty chill work environment, very flexible, hybrid model. Everything is great.

Problem: They take flexible work hours too seriously, I have meetings at 10 PM on weekdays and almost every weekend there's some work which they need the next day in most cases but apparently have to keep the meeting on the weekend with no prior notice.

I mean, i like going to office twice a week around 11-12 and coming back around 7, wfh when I have a few meetings that day but is it normal to work on weekends? and after work hours?

P.S. I've only been in this company for a month and joined as a fresher.

Now that I've put it down, this is such a gen z problem lol

But what should I do?

working post work hours and on weekends?

Product Designer

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Disclaimer: Probably a rant.
Let me give you some context. I am an ambivert, I don't like interacting with new people. I have been working from home since the pandemic. 

Last day I, along with 20 other people was asked if they can come together on a weekend to celebrate the 1 year anniversary of a project(who does that) that I too was working on
One guy said he is busy and might not come. The organizer started to plead with him to go to the event, on the call, a conference call. And since I don't like the attention I didn't say I won't be going to that event either.

I understand from an organizer point of view, you have to show the maximum amount of people. But consider this, it's a freaking weekend. It should be a time to unwind from work and find some comfort of their own liking.

Thank you for attending my Ted Rant. Have a nice day

I really don't want to go to team building activities

Team building activities should definitely be done on working days and most preferably within working hours.

As most of us look forward to weekend or long weekend, I wanna know what are few things or that one thing u try not to fail in doing such that after weekend u don’t regret that it’s over? It can be as simple as getting a space cleaned in ur home. I am only looking for things that u cannot do on a weekday and so u look forward to doing it over weekend.

How do u make weekend fulfilling ?

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I’ve often found myself in a position where friends/family are planning a trip or something else which is unsuitable for my budget and I struggle in saying NO to such things. As a kid I’ve seen my own parents bail out of things sometimes by clearly calling out the budget constraint and sometimes by making some other excuse. But unfortunately I’m not able to clearly say NO citing budget issues. I usually make some other lame excuses which sound pretty stupid at times (I’m weak at lying) mostly because I don’t want people to see me with eyes full of pity.

For example, folks in my closest friends circle come from a pretty wealthy family and even right now they earn easily 50%+ more than me so their plans are mostly unfit for my wallet. One time I had to refuse to participate in their trip just because of budget and I could sense the pity that they had for me at that moment or another time I could feel them being disheartened because they had to compromise a bit with their plan so that it could adjust with my wallet. In each case I felt really uncomfortable and since then I’ve been using only some other excuses to escape from such plans.

So my question to you folks is, if you’ve ever found yourself in a similar situation, how have you dealt with it? Any suggestions for me on how I can handle it better?

How do you bail out of plans/things if the reason is budget?

Product Manager

People are being forced to work on weekends in the name of "escalations". And instead of it being a request, it is an indirect threat. We are just mere freshers and do not know how to deal with this. How do we navigate this?

Thoughts on being forced to work on weekends?

Data engineer

I wait all week for weekend, then realize I just didn't have enough fun on the weekend. What makes a good weekend? How can I make sure that this Monday I go to office feeling like I had a nice weekend. 

Give suggestions please 🙏

How to have a good weekend?

Have a bad week. Your weekend will look better. Your brain thinks in comparatives.

Program Manager

Operations Manager

me  on indisciplinary grounds. The manegement also cited that I've been quite notorious with taking a lot of leaves during my stint at this particular place and they aren't appreciative of that. They also mentioned that if they grant me a leave, it'll showcase that they are biased towards me and hence other employees will ask for leaves as well.

I'm really concerned and I am considering resigning given how the situation is. I have a lot of other issues with the firm and if I had to cite them, it'd be a 4000 word essay.

Confused as what should I do.

Part 2 IB Associate

Weekend goals 😃

Especially in a city like Bangalore where you spend 5 days in office 
Clubbing is not an option every weekend, considering how expensive clubs are and how antisocial I am 
What can we do apart from scrolling phone Or binging content indefinitely?
Suggest some options 

I tried those meetups and board games night. 
They are not as exciting after first few rounds 

#Bangalore #5daysOffice

How to have a good weekend

So it’s barely been a month since I’ve joined this company and my manager has already started dumping his workload to me on weekends and at odd hours late in the night. 

Now he’s not a horrible person but I hate how normalised this culture is at this entire organisation. I get it if I’m a founder or working at a startup, I have to be prepared to hustle but not at a big corporation. 

And the irony is that I once needed something urgently from someone based in Europe from our team but my manager asked me to call him the next day since that person was out of his working hours while I was on a call with my manager at 1:18am…..

I’ve also noticed how casually he calls me everyday post 9pm to ask for updates or give a new task. My work hours end by 6pm. 

I really want to to establish certain boundaries, and not want to work on weekends. I’m a biker, and I’ve been cancelling all my biking plans on weekends just cause of this. How do I go about this without it negatively affecting my ratings/impressions etc.?? I have a life smh. 

(Writing this while I’m working on a Sunday)

work on weekends/late night

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