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Microsoft employee slammed for time spent on breaks and grabbing snacks in viral workday video
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Mansi Singhal, a 24-year-old software engineer, has gone viral several times over after she revealed what a day in her life at a Microsoft office — where she works in Hyderabad, India — looks like in anhas many people baffled and wondering when she gets any work done — while being simultaneously jealous of the wild variety of snack offerings.

Social media users analyzed her video intensely, and, given the timestamps included, many suspect that her day is made up of more breaks than the average office worker.that “the most generous read is 6h15m of work and 3h10m of breaks.” Some thought that was quite a benevolent take indeed — and guessed Singhal’s actual work time was just around three or four hours.Bizarre, beachy sex fetish has Americans hot under the collar this summer — blame the steamy weather, experts sayModern tech and Silicon Valley-style offices have garnered reputations for wild office environments , with many buildings offering amenities ranging from free lunch to cold brew on tap to hammocks to relax in — but social media users seem to think Singhal’s daily in-office routine takes the madness to the next level. What is the ‘ghostworking’ trend? Here’s how a majority of burned-out employees pretend to do their jobs every day “This woman started her lunch at 1:00 and didn’t resume work until 2:15? Unless she’s trying to eat an entire ham by herself, that’s crazy,” one X user. “The ‘adult day care’ label is more than earned. I’m surprised there’s no designated nap time.” “I would be SO fried there. Pretending to work is more stressful than actually working,” continued the same user, referring to theSome users who have stumbled across the video have also wondered how Singhal has managed to hold onto her job — especially amid thedid admit that she tends to show the “good side of dev life,”Other Microsoft “day in my life” style videos have gone viral over the years, indicating that despite what Singhal’s post suggests, software engineers do actually work.However, other corporate employees say this kind of treatment is the bare minimum, especially in an era where many jobs can be done from home. “For full RTO, if they want workers to go back to pre-COVID, the office needs to go pre-COVID too,” one X userHorndog Texas cop vows to give ‘everyone’ a ticket after she didn’t get 'action' the night before Blake Lively’s lawyers address ‘face-to-face showdown’ with Justin Baldoni at deposition: ‘A media circus’Malin Akerman Says Comparisons Between Her ‘The Hunting Wives’ Character’s Appearance and Melania Trump “Hit The Nail on the Head”

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