I have never spent more time pretending to be busy than when I’ve had to work in an office. And god help the person who drags me away from what I’m doing every five minutes for “meetings”.
Contrast this with the guy in Seattle who like tripled the size of his company in a year simply because offering remote work options made it super easy to scalp software engineers from his competitors.
Is this guy in Seattle still hiring?
I’ve been trying for years to get a software job in Seattle.
Its the only city that made me feel “at home”
Unfortunately, this was a few years ago, and the only thing I can find that resembles my memory of the article I was thinking of is this photo in my phone:
I think I might have had that mixed up with the story of that CEO who cut his pay from 1 million dollars to $70,000 and bumped up the salary of everybody else who worked at the company to $70,000.
Then why do the highest paid people sit alone in a office away from everyone else ?
Where is the accountability when the C level a-hole separate themselves from their entire company ?
That’s why they golf all the time.
You are trying to counter corpo propaganda with common sense…
You ain’t wrong but this ain’t what this is about.
Peasants will be working these fields and daddy owner will be “superving” since you can’t trust these field ***** to do anything right without his greatness
Remote makes it easy to look busy without making progress.
Boy, oh boy, do I have some news for you…
Im the office you can bullshit all day about sports and it is considered networking by developing relationships, which counts as working!
Office Space: Meeting with the Bobs comes to mind.
Of course he’s into “AI”, but healthcare decisions? Where is Luigi when you need em…
“We want to iterate really, really fast.”
No. YOU want that…
You mean you don’t love having your direction changed all the time?
A software company i was gonna do an internship at actually had every programmer switch projects every hour. They had so many clients, you would switch between 8 different projects every work day.
I did not do the internship. No thankyou.
What kind of cartoony social experiment was that? Is there any rational behind it other than making excuses to overwork employees?
The logic behind it is that if the project requires being handed off constantly that they will be designed in a way that all developers are interchangeable and anyone can work on anything.
My office tried that like a decade ago and the problem was that there is a ton of needs that aren’t directly part of the code that impact how the system should function and vary wildly between projects. Project A has legal requirements, B is a fun thing but is for someone with very specific expectations, and C has different legal requirements than A. The same kind of change request for all three may be implemented differently in all three in a way that makes both designing and fixing bugs very different and constant switching means nobody has time to be up to speed on everything at the same time because software is more than whether or not it passes testing.
Example: Names for individuals in A might need to be limited to last names only for display purposes for all roles except system administrators who can see full names. Full names can be displayed in B. Full names can be displayed in software C for system administrators, but limited to initials for everyone else. Try keeping that stuff straight when adding something new involving names after changing systems constantly!
ehehe I actually had five different projects at a software house I worked for. I was productive, mostly, but not very healthy tho.
I’m not a professional coder but I have coded and when I do it takes me more than an hour to get into the groove, maybe because I’m shit at it, but I need to get my head into the code before I can add/improve it. This would make it impossible for me to do anything useful as I’d never get to my groove.
It takes at least 15 minutes to get back into it if you get interrupted for even a minute or two. An hour is not unreasonable for a cold start, so no, that is normal, you are not shit at it.
Decisions that don’t last more than a day are the best kinds of decisions!
Motherfucker, I want you to schedule meetings with me, so that I can effectively manage my own time, and not get jerked around at your whim whenever you decide that “we” should do something completely stupid. If you don’t want to have to schedule meetings with people, you don’t value their time.
What you perceive as “looking busy” is quite often me letting things cook a little bit when I’m at an obstacle (technical or otherwise). My taking space to think and make sure I am not just flailing around in a panic all the time or saying the wrong thing the wrong way to the wrong people makes me more effective.
But you wouldn’t know any of that, because you’re a chode.
This guy can go suck a fuck!
Being in the same space with teammates
Ah, so what you mean is that you create an environment that is hostile towards people with sensory sensitivities or issues, while also standing menacingly over everyone’s shoulders all day.
Hard pass.
There’s so many of these Mommy’s Special Boys who think their singular genius must be reflected on to others in meat space.
All hail the maladjusted narcissists and their performative office BS and the incompetents who cannot plan more than 15 seconds ahead in life.
He can go suck a lemon 🍋
good luck finding any good developer who wants to be forced on site 5 days a week.
Every post I see on here makes me glad I spend the minimal amount of time on LinkedIn possible - my work has a LinkedIn Learning license and we’re periodically required to take specific courses on there.
If I have some shit I really want to get done at my job, I make it a point to work from home so I can dedicate 8 hours to grinding out the work instead of being constantly interrupted by people in the office.
Andrew, you ignorant slut.
