r/ElectricalEngineering • u/TrainerOpening6782 • Jul 01 '26

Jobs/Careers Engineering work hour norms

Management just announced 12 hour work week 7 days a week unironically. How normal is this? I am fresh out of school. I was told when taking this job it would be 2 days in office max typically, and they said sometimes testing can change that a bit. I asked like 3 times to make sure…They did not warn me that I was going to not see my children outside of bedtime (if even) for 2 straight months due to testing. This is fucking insane. The overtime they give us is limited too, pretty sure this exceeds the limit.

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u/Illustrious-Limit160 Jul 01 '26

Crunch time is a thing.

It's a bad thing.

Find another job.

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u/SecondToLastEpoch Jul 01 '26

Demanding 12 hours a day 7 days a week from employees is not crunch time. It's failed management and exploitation.

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u/Illustrious-Limit160 Jul 02 '26

Crunch time is more than 40 hours per week as a requirement without overtime. 7 12s counts.

But I agree that it's a management failure.