The real story here is that this is news. It's common for most European businesses for 2 weeks every year in the summer. It's a non-optional, lights out, GTFO shutdown.
It's also very common for people to take time off for (mental) health reasons.
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
#302Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I'm not sure I agree. Some of the best Scrum Masters I've worked with was not developers, but peoples person with great process optimization skills. Some of the worst I've worked with have been developers or product owners that failed to separate their roles.
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>"Why is that? What's wrong with SF for dating? (just curious)" Where to begin? The tech industry is massively skewed towards male, so right off the bat your odds of meeting someone in your work life is near nil. Then, with the complete lack of affordable housing, there's no such thing as just being a single 20-something living independently and supporting yourself on a non-tech salary. Bare minimum subsistence incom…
Don’t feel too bad about the highly paid tech dudes. Tech dudes don’t stand a chance either because women don’t want to date another tech dude. I’m turning 31 in a couple months and am coming out of a 5 year relationship. It’s looking grim AF. My only real hope is that I get back with my ex eventually. I did the fancy vacations. I have the high income (~400k). I have a reasonably high net worth for my age (~2M). Even…
> It’s looking grim AF.
> I have the high income (~400k).
> high net worth for my age (~2M)
SF is like another planet. Unless you're exceptionally ugly or have an incredibly bad personality, you wouldn't have problem dating anywhere else on entire Earth.
I'm 33, living in Eastern Europe, and have nothing special in terms of looks (probably solid 6, but you can just google my username) or money (certainly nothing even close to SF tech salaries). And yet, when I re-activate my profile on Tinder, I get first 100 likes in a first day or two.
Re: Bumble closes to give 'burnt-out' staff a week's break
#304> collective burnout > fortnightly manicures, hair trims and "blowouts" which the founder said showed "appreciation for our busy bees" > Working hours? Not nine to five apparently. Employees can choose the hours they want, just as long as the work gets done It's all just a bunch of BS. Give your employees reasonable time off policies and encourage them to actually take time off instead of letting them get burned out…
Yeah, my personal experience over the past 18 months has led to some changes in how I view the structure of work. I don’t get burned out from working too much; I get burned out from having to make constant decisions about what I’m going to work on and how I’m going to do it. For me lack of structure is the primary source of burnout, not workload. The flexibility of working from home is nice, but not enough to make up…
+1
If you can find a place where the work is more about doing something than figuring out what to do, this sounds fantastic.
Re: Bumble closes to give 'burnt-out' staff a week's break
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Maybe not a short vacation but enough time will do the trick. Source: just came off a 2 1/2 year break
I’m at the start of an extended break for now. 3 weeks in and I’m not sure how long it’ll be but I have enough saved up to take 2-3 years off. How’d you spend your time off? And what brought you back?
I tried to self-fund a startup that crash and burned.
I'll never do that again. What an expensive lesson to learn.
I traveled the world. I went to all seven continents and fucked off big time. I partied when I wanted to. I went where I wanted to go. I was a bit hedonistic at times.
No regrets.
Eventually, I ran out of money, so I'm back again. I honestly didn't want to come back to tech, but that big paycheck, and I'm good at it.