What is office working hour

“WORKING HOURS” in Software industry is one of the most misunderstood and misused word. Generally working hour means – The legal amount of time the company wants its employee to spend in office (productive and non productive hours is a matter of debate). But that’s the legal or the documented part. Its real implications are completely different.

Right from the birth of civilization (please read as Software industry), the society has been divided into two. First part comprise of the elite few or the oppressor or the tyrant (please read as the manager or supervisor or the team lead, different words but they all mean the same in this context) and the second part comprise of the innocent oppressed class or the proletarians, glorified by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (please read as the poor software engineers).
This divide has led to different interpretation of the word “WORKING HOUR”. I bring here the manager’s interpretation of this word.
For managers the word working hour is the most infamous and popularly used trapping devise. And the victims are who, any guesses, you have got it right, it’s us the poor software engineers working under them. For managers, working hour or office hour has only the start time but there are is no end time. We are expected to reach office at the correct time and never leave office after that (I mean that’s the ideal office hours as per managers). Leaving office on time is like practicing untouchablity or involving in act of low moral and social value for the managers. Working minimum two to three hours after you legal office end time is what managers encourage.
For them these extra hours spent in office is very much part of normal working hours. Apart from that, working on weekends (Call of duty as described by managers) is another obvious and inherent part of Legal office hours in the eyes of managers. The story does not end here; managers who are real managers (I mean the real software industry managers) are very secular in their outlook towards the different days in a year. They are secular to the extent that they treat a working day and a holiday with absolute equality. So that this phenomenal progressive secular outlook translates into “only working day and no holiday” for us. The Consortium of managers has even appealed to the literary society of world seeking a change in the famous saying “All work and no play makes jack a dull boy”. And if their appeal is accepted the saying will change to something like this “All work and no play gets jack in good books of managers”
And why we poor oppressed class are so scared to challenge this prevalent exploitation is that fact that WORKING HOUR plays a significant role as far as appraisal ratings are concerned. Quality and difficulty of work comes second to the number of hours spend in office as far as securing good appraisal comments are concerned. Long working hours no holidays and coming to office on weekends combined with no compensation is what makes us an eligible candidate for good appraisal.