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Frankly, this sounds absolutely insane. How is a death march that doesn't exact a toll a death march? Does anyone work a 40 hour a week death march? Why wouldn
by nsxwolf 10y ago
Frankly, this sounds absolutely insane. How is a death march that doesn't exact a toll a death march? Does anyone work a 40 hour a week death march?
Why wouldn't you just look for a new job? Why waste your own time on a doomed project?
I certainly hope all the engineers are in on the joke, because if I found out some others on my team conspired to create this situation without letting me decide to be involved or not I would be super pissed.
- vinceguidry 10y agoNobody non-technical knows what an engineer is really doing while he is sitting at his desk. He might be at his desk 50+ hours a week, earning time-and-a-half on top of his already lucrative salary, but he won't actually be contributing anything that the company actually needs. The senior engineers certainly won't be working more than 40 hours a week. That's for the younger fellas. If you got handed a bunch of bullshit tasks by your senior engineer with or without a generous amount of winking and subtle sarcasm, you'd pick up on it pretty quick. You'd have all sorts of questions about why X needs to be done and would be getting no straight answers. Eventually you'd either get the picture or someone will take you aside and delicately let you in on it. Think that scene in Silicon Valley where Big Head is having his new "role" described to him, only done by the engineers rather than an HR manager. If it looks like you need a lesson in savviness yourself, they won't let you in on it and let you flounder around just like the manager.