u/Exoweb

100+ hrs work week with no days off - I will not promote

So i recently joined this early stage bootstrapped startup as a software engineering Intern where I am required to work around 14-15 hours a day , 7 days a week and they don't give weekends off.. essentially I'm like a robot working all the time -> sleeping and coming back.

The founder just said this before joining so i thought the max will be 10 hours a day :

"We enter at 10 am,

And stay till war ends"

I've done this for 3 weeks. There's 40 days left.

I wanna quit but my friends are saying that i shouldn't since I can learn a lot here.

It's true that I learn a lot on an everyday basis here but I am burning the hell out.

I don't know if it's normal (the amt of hours) and if I am incompetent. Please help me with your opinions.

Update: I Quit. He said I'm a loser and I won't be able to work at any successful startup and everyone who wins should work this hard. Your people should bleed with you and you should be there and stuff. For those asking - They were supposed to pay around 200 dollars a month since I'm in India. I'm supposed to get around 140 dollars for the work I've put in so far. They said they can't pay. So i essentially wasted money on rent, food etc to the same amount. thank you guys for your time and for your opinions! It really helped me a lot.

Ps. Don't fry me pls coz I joined by accident and had no experience.

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u/Exoweb — 9 days ago