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If anybody did anything that psychotic with me, I'd quit and head for saner pastures ASAP.
If you ask an employee, "Are you bored?" there's a good chance they are going to lie to you, unless you have a strong enough relationship.
I think that's why he suggests digging deeper until they are making eye contact.
Axiom: Boring work can never compete with Hacker News. Axiom: Hacker News can never compete with interesting work. Theorem: The interestingness of my work is inversely related to my Hacker News participation. Supporting data: Today I'm regression testing. I'll be here all day, folks. Idea: Employers, monitor your logs for Hacker News. Occasional spikes probably indicate boring, but necessary tasks. Chronic use probab…
I don't know if historical karma values are readily available, it would be interesting to plot the rate of change over time.
A couple of engineers gave notice in the last week complaining about boredom. They ended up convincing one to stay(salary+ & better projects) but I feel their pain.
I think what happens in a start-up is that once the company reaches a certain size, the 'hard-part' is already done. The type of engineer that gets attracted to working at a start-up is usually one that likes to be in over their head a bit and trying to solve hard problems. Once that 'problem' is basically solved unless they move on to other things(platforms/frameworks/languages/etc), they're inevitably going to get bored, complain, hate their life and then quit.
I'm forwarding this article to management here, hopefully they'll get the hint.
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I think that's why he suggests digging deeper until they are making eye contact.
Ha! Good luck with this. Seasoned employees know how to pretend to like a job, right up until they put in their notice.
If you've grown bored and decided that you aren't going to attempt to communicate that in any way to your employer, or do anything to change that boredom, you've already decided that you are on your way out, even if you haven't admitted to yourself.
Axiom: Boring work can never compete with Hacker News. Axiom: Hacker News can never compete with interesting work. Theorem: The interestingness of my work is inversely related to my Hacker News participation. Supporting data: Today I'm regression testing. I'll be here all day, folks. Idea: Employers, monitor your logs for Hacker News. Occasional spikes probably indicate boring, but necessary tasks. Chronic use probab…
(1) joking aside, please don't monitor logs like this. instead, treat your employees like real human beings and understand what they feel. not only is it more efficient than trying to reduce complex humans to a few "metrics", but it will allow you to detect more than just "boredom". (2) if you're thinking "how can they be bored when everything is so busy and there's so much to do?" maybe you are one of those over-man…