Our entire product team has been working 60-hour weeks for eight months and we all keep saying it's temporary but nobody will admit that we've normalized this and we're all afraid to be the first one to say we can't sustain it. I watch everyone else seeming to handle it fine and wonder if I'm the weak link, but I also see the quality of our work declining and our relationships with each other getting more transactional.
More people experience this than they realize.
Everyone pretends the crushing hours are temporary, and you're scared to be the first to say you can't keep going.
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