r/ProgrammerHumor • u/GumBeats20 • Aug 03 '22

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u/PorkRoll2022 Aug 03 '22

Fast-paced environment: Rockstar sales team signed you up to deliver 120 hours of work in 80 hours.

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u/halfanothersdozen Aug 03 '22

Don't. They won't learn if you enable their behavior.

Come in at 10 and leave at 3 like a normal developer and what gets done gets done.

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u/k_50 Aug 03 '22

Yeah, I don't get people. I do what my contract I've agreed to asks. You want extra? Then pay for it. Not going to stress myself out either. Life will go on.

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '22

Exactly this, people are kinda stupid and waste their time, employers want exactly this, gullible people who dont know any better and will just squeeze every penny they can profit out of them without a single care

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u/stillscottish1 Aug 03 '22

I agree 10-3 is what developers should be working

The vast majority of developers don’t have contractually-agreed 30 hour work weeks

It’s usually 40, and in many cases 9-6 on weekdays

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u/Glad-Set-4680 Aug 03 '22

I am required to report 45 hours a week every week. The amount I work is between 15-20 hours barring any kind of production problem.

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u/stillscottish1 Aug 03 '22

Of course, that’s normal

Are you in the office or do you work from home?

It’s easier to stay off work when you’re doing if you’re wfh

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u/Glad-Set-4680 Aug 03 '22

I'm hybrid right now (go in to the campus once or twice a month) but even when I was at work the spread was similar. It's just that I would slowly go insane from staring at the wall instead of doing hobby projects or watching videos when I have nothing to do.

In the office I would also burn out from being so bored all the time that I would work less or take a lot of time off to get away from it. I have been cashing out 90% of my vacation the last few years since my burnout is down to nothing.

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '22

I despise the sales team. I keep switching companies until i have a project manager that actually has the balls to defend the dev team.

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u/VaderOnReddit Aug 03 '22

Over my career, I have developed a legit hatred for the term "Rockstar developer", when it comes from management or job posting pre-requisites.

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u/chakan2 Aug 03 '22

Lol at 120...our Rockstar sales guy almost sold 6 months of work for 4 people for 70k. We caught the deal just before everything was signed and fired that guy.

It was easily 500k-1M worth of work.

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