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It could be used against you, especially if your manager/boss/ceo is an asshole. Anything more than what's required from you by contract might be taken for granted, and when you'll try to stop doing the extra work it will be percieved as a regression, rather than a return to 'normal'. That could become a weapon against you if they want to get rid of you, or if they wanna force you into doing more for less.
Of course, not every manager is a psychopath (maybe?) and not every company is hell, so you have to evaluate this in the context of the people you know and work with.
But yes, the fact that you're staying longer than you should *could* (in some cases) have bad consequences for you. -
If you are staying late for the sake of staying late, then please don't. I hope you are not.
If you are staying late to learn new things in peace and working towards growing your knowledge, stay as long as you want. And in case, you are worried about repurcussions like others mentioned... Don't worry about that. You are at the beginning of your career. Learn as much as you can. Leave when the going gets tough, professionally or financially.
Tldr: intern here, I like staying in my workplace for longer than my work hours. Is it going to cause me trouble if i become a permanent employee?
Long story: So as per my previous rants i joined a startup as an android intern, company is of around 80-90 employees with many teams and standard/sad rules like 9 hr shift, 1 paid leave per month etc.
I was worried of these rules due to being a regular clg student and living very far from office, so i complained and got a little compensations like 7 hr work shift, few half days and work from home days, etc
Now the thing is : i actually have kind of started to like this work. Its been a month and i took around 12 days leave last month for papers, but marked some of them as wfh and half days, so deductions were not what i expected (although payslip is yet to come, which would have given a better explaination). But overall Pay is decent, work environment is chill ( people work in teams here, but since am the only android dev, i got no timelines, or tech leads. Just the ceo, whom i send a daily progress message), there are good refreshments available and after papers, i am pretty much free.
So I like staying here for longer hours like 8, or 8.30 hours. My family is also working, so they are usually not much worried, tho my mom starts sending messages when i leave after 7. But this friend of mine, keeps saying "its wrong, your managers are gonna call you weak and would force you to work for more hours when they notice you can come for 9 hours , etc"
So am i doing the wrong thing here?
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