The anti crunch hours license

Post by abhinai » Sat, Mar 30, 2019, 6:47 PM UTC

balfirevic wrote: post #116

abhinai wrote: post #31

In the best job I ever had in my life, my boss basically told me that she didn't care about the hours I kept or how long I worked every day as long as I got my job done. I usually showed up to work at 12pm and left around 4pm. It ended up being one of the most productive times of my life. I created products that had hundreds of millions of dollars worth of impact on the company bottom line. In my immediate next job I…

That's a pretty cool arrangement. How was "getting job done" defined? My experience as a developer is that there is always something to do. So where is the line drawn?

Post by abhinai » Sat, Mar 30, 2019, 6:51 PM UTC

magnetic wrote: post #115

abhinai wrote: post #31

In the best job I ever had in my life, my boss basically told me that she didn't care about the hours I kept or how long I worked every day as long as I got my job done. I usually showed up to work at 12pm and left around 4pm. It ended up being one of the most productive times of my life. I created products that had hundreds of millions of dollars worth of impact on the company bottom line. In my immediate next job I…

> In the best job I ever had in my life, my boss basically told me that she didn't care about the hours I kept or how long I worked every day as long as I got my job done. I usually showed up to work at 12pm and left around 4pm. Did you have to interact with anyone? I can imagine this can be challenging if another person you need to interact with follows the same principle with a 7am to 11am schedule.

Post by pessimizer » Sat, Mar 30, 2019, 7:17 PM UTC

est31 wrote: post #16

I support the general idea of not having to work 12 hours a day for 6 days. That's crazy. But there are other venues for labour activism than changing the license. And in other Chinese industries that aren't related to software at all, labour activism is quite successful as well. So there is no need to resort to license changes. As for your PS, there is no indication that it's a protest and not just a license.

Post by khuey » Sat, Mar 30, 2019, 7:32 PM UTC

vkou wrote: post #82

rb808 wrote: post #81

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Pretty much every hospital globally. Its not great for the doctors, but if you're a patient with an acute problem its much better to have the same few doctors working keeping watch over you than a brand new doctor every 8 hours coming on board that doesn't know anything about why you're there.

There's probably a more optimal solution then either a current 8h handoff, or a zombie caring for you. However, doctoring, as profession, is a conservative one, and is highly resistant to process improvements. It took decades of effort, and decades of trivial mistakes (wrong organs removed, surgical instruments left inside patients when they are sewn up) to get the profession to even consider that maybe, maybe, check…

Post by vkou » Sat, Mar 30, 2019, 7:53 PM UTC

khuey wrote: post #127

vkou wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's probably a more optimal solution then either a current 8h handoff, or a zombie caring for you. However, doctoring, as profession, is a conservative one, and is highly resistant to process improvements. It took decades of effort, and decades of trivial mistakes (wrong organs removed, surgical instruments left inside patients when they are sewn up) to get the profession to even consider that maybe, maybe, check…

The difference between the safety culture in medicine and the safety culture in aviation is incredible.