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Bumble closes to give 'burnt-out' staff a week's break

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Re: Bumble closes to give 'burnt-out' staff a week's break

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Post by baud147258 »

hvidgaard wrote: post #77
curiousgal wrote: post #3

Maybe I am too naive but what the heck are they overworking on? It's an app with some basic functionality. Is software dev in such a sad state that you can't deliver a self-standing product that doesn't require teams working overtime to keep it running? I doubt that all of their staff is doing DevOps or maintaining servers which are the only two things that jump to mind as being labor-intensive for a an app with mill…

There is this misconception that software development can be ultra lean and only really need a team of few handful of people if they're just sufficiently capable. It's knowledge work that is almost always in the complex domain, and as such it's far from simple. In fact it's the domain of unknown unknowns. So to have a product with millions of users with an online attack vector, that takes security and uptime serious,…

For Agile role (assuming you mean a role like SCRUM master), it works way better if it's a productive team member (either developer, QA, doc writer...) that works part-time as the SCRUM master for the team, rather than a agile person who does only that, which usually feel disconnected from the actual concerns of the team.

Re: Bumble closes to give 'burnt-out' staff a week's break

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Post by FunnyLookinHat »

This is excellent.

My workplace (Moz) has been giving us the third Friday of every month off since April of 2020 due to COVID. The CEO called them "Breather Days" - a day to catch our breath, catch up on chores or home life, help get our kids school straightened out, etc. More importantly than simply getting the days off, the empathy that it demonstrated reassured everyone that we would find the work/life balance we needed even in extraordinary times.

Re: Bumble closes to give 'burnt-out' staff a week's break

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Post by bidirectional »

Symbiote wrote: post #80
Liquidor wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which is how much...?

The legal minimum is 20 days for the London office, 22 in Spain, at least that in Moscow. (This is in addition to public holidays.) Bumble probably offer a bit more. In the UK and Spain, that's also the number you must use, I don't know about Russia. (In other words, if you've not used any days by December, you'll be taking all of December off. Or whenever your year wraps round.)

I don't think it is a requirement to take all holiday in the UK? I've definitely not used all of mine in the past.

Re: Bumble closes to give 'burnt-out' staff a week's break

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Post by bidirectional »

SketchySeaBeast wrote: post #48
Symbiote wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> A spokeswoman for Bumble said a few customer support staff will be working in case any of the app's users experience issues. These employees will then be given time off to make sure they take a whole week of leave.

That's still not ops, but I assume they just forget to mention them.

I'd say in spokeperson-speak, ops falls under customer support.

Re: Bumble closes to give 'burnt-out' staff a week's break

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Post by fantod »

ramesh31 wrote: post #69
silicon2401 wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a very subjective statement. The pandemic has been bar none the best period of my life. Increased physical and social distance from other people, no need to emote in public thanks to masks, no need to commute, greater accommodation for non-social options like self-checkouts. My physical and mental health have skyrocketed, and as a result I feel like I've been on vacation for a year and half, despite only taki…

I've never been so envious of happily married people in my life. Being single throughout this ordeal has broken me mentally, particularly at an age (31) where I'm staring down the last couple years of being able to meet someone my age. And the prospects coming out of it are grim. For people with a happy home life, this may have been a good time. But for the isolated, work from home, single people with no long term so…

I was feeling pretty awful by the time April came around, being in the same position as you. But I took advantage of the fact that I work remote now and moved to a very large and densely populated city you've heard of. Meeting people and socializing regularly has completely changed my point of view. Obviously, not everyone can do this, but perhaps the moral is that a change of perspective would be beneficial and some sort of life change could catalyze that. A huge advantage of being single is that you have a lot more freedom to just up and go where you like.

Re: Bumble closes to give 'burnt-out' staff a week's break

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Post by LandR »

bin_bash wrote: post #66
hh3k0 wrote: post #33

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> no need to emote in public thanks to masks I will miss that. I liked not being told that I look angry or that I should smile sometimes.

I’m curious, are you female? I don’t think I’ve ever been asked that unless I was unbelievably angry. Like maybe once or twice in my entire adult life.

I get asked quite often if I'm angry, grumpy, down, "what's wrong?" even when I'm absolutely fine and none of those things.

I was even stopped by a random stranger in a supermarket once and they asked if I was OK... I said I was fine, and then she asked if it had been a long day... erm. Guess it's just my face.

I remember in the supermarket I was actually just thinking about if a man could beat a giraffe in a fight.

Re: Bumble closes to give 'burnt-out' staff a week's break

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Post by keehun »

fatjokes wrote: post #20
asim wrote: post #2

Good. We're taking all of July off at my company. Why? Because covid was an incredibly hard period for all of us and we as humans need a break. Somehow we all just seem to expect things to keep going like nothing changed. We all just seem to be expected to gloss over the pains of isolation, potential death and stress of work and life with no separation or boundaries. We made a conscious decision at my place of work t…

Company-wide month off sounds amazing. Would you be willing to name it (would be great PR for them). If not, would you give a sense of geography, industry and size?

Based on his profile, seems like he is CEO/Founder of his place of work:

> I'm Asim Aslam. The Founder CEO of Micro Services, Inc., creator of the open source cloud platform Micro and a technologist by training.

Re: Bumble closes to give 'burnt-out' staff a week's break

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Post by dijksterhuis »

ramesh31 wrote: post #69
silicon2401 wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a very subjective statement. The pandemic has been bar none the best period of my life. Increased physical and social distance from other people, no need to emote in public thanks to masks, no need to commute, greater accommodation for non-social options like self-checkouts. My physical and mental health have skyrocketed, and as a result I feel like I've been on vacation for a year and half, despite only taki…

I've never been so envious of happily married people in my life. Being single throughout this ordeal has broken me mentally, particularly at an age (31) where I'm staring down the last couple years of being able to meet someone my age. And the prospects coming out of it are grim. For people with a happy home life, this may have been a good time. But for the isolated, work from home, single people with no long term so…

Huh? What?

I'm about to turn 32 and I'm a bit confused about the whole "last couple of years of being able to meet someone".

I know people who met and got married in their 40s...

Edit: go easy on yourself pal. We've all got enough to deal with in the world without beating ourselves up over imaginary deadlines.

Edit2: also, a lot of marriages are not happy. Imagine having to live in one of them during a pandemic. Usually made me feel better about being single!

Re: Bumble closes to give 'burnt-out' staff a week's break

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Post by philangist »

ramesh31 wrote: post #89
golergka wrote: post #83

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> particularly at an age (31) where I'm staring down the last couple years of being able to meet someone What? I'm 33, only a few months into my current relationship, and I have to say that dating is so much better at this age than it ever was.

>I'm 33, only a few months into my current relationship, and I have to say that dating is so much better at this age than it ever was. You can get lucky. There are certainly unicorns out there. Or you can date younger, if you're ok with that. But by and large, women and men work on different timelines. And you don't realize this as a man until it hits. The vast majority of women are out of the dating pool by 30. And…

Why wouldn't you date someone younger? At 31 assuming you have your life reasonably together and aren't living in some rural area (or san francisco lol) you can definitely meet attractive and interesting women 25+ that would be interested in settling down on your timeframe. Dating is all about self fulfilling prophecies so if you're telling yourself there are no women available that's what you're going to manifest.
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