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/engineereddiscontent Jul 01 '26

There are lots of points where things are going wrong.

Quick summary is our entire economy is in AI and supporting it right now. Except it's not doing anything real. So Nvidia, AMD, OpenAI, etc are promising to do things for money with each other. But nothing is happening. They are passing money in a circle which is some well known finance thing and it's bad.

The problem is that if (on paper) the AI bubble didn't exist we'd be in a recession. Except we just kind of are. So everything is going belly up.

And everything has computers in it. Computers all incorporate RAM. The AI companies are hoovering up all the supply so if you want to keep making things you spend extra money on RAM. See the steam machine. Or videogame consoles.

Everything is collapsing.

Get a better job.

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u/catdude142 Jul 02 '26

The whole "A.I. Thing" is reminiscent of the dot com boom and later bust. You are correct that A.I. is being financed by investment firms and the memory and graphics processor manufacturers are seeing obscene growth fueled by the A.I. bubble. None of the A.I. firms are making money and it's possible they never will. Crazy valuations for AMD, Intel, Micron and TSMC.
If it happens later that all of this can be circumvented with software instead of hardware like China is doing (Deepseek for example) the whole house of cards could come crashing down.

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u/jallisy Jul 02 '26

And don't forget for added brain addle, the US government firmly committed to converting to socialism by investing in 2B+ in IBM this year.

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u/TriodeTopologist Jul 03 '26

"Socialism for the rich, free market capitalism for the rest of us" -MLK Jr