3 ms·
For some reason most of us are too afraid of just going home at 5:00 much less asking for reduced hours. My whole working life, I've never used an alarm clock,
by gerbilly 9y ago
For some reason most of us are too afraid of just going home at 5:00 much less asking for reduced hours.
My whole working life, I've never used an alarm clock, and I never stayed late unless I was late on a commitment that I made. (This is not the same as some artificial deadline dreamed up by someone else.)
I come in late, go home early, sometimes I don't even show up—whatever.
If you do this consistently, and deliver in your role of course, people will get used to it and they'll stop bothering you about it.
- ukulele 9y agoYou can't really generalize this to everyone. It's dependent on your managers, and there are definitely people in the world who will fire an otherwise good employee for showing bad "optics" to other employees. You may not want to work in such an environment, but that is of course a luxury to be able to choose.
- mooreds 9y agoIt also depends on your role and who depends on your work and/or expertise. For some folks this kind of flexibility is eminently attainable, for others it juts isn't possible.
- volgo 9y agoSpeak for yourself. I go home everyday at 3pm. I'm a productive worker and I know how much I contribute. I never miss a project deadline, always finish what I'm assigned to in a sprint, and don't chitchat with people throughout the day. I get in at 11 am and leave 3pm. I don't care what anyone thinks because at the end of every sprint, I know that my boss and other leaders get together and look at productivity and place me at the top of the chart. When things get busy, I don't hestitate to pull some weekends for my boss because we have a mutual understanding. I get paid almost twice as the going salary for Silicon Valley and I happily work my ass off for the company. It's win win for everyone
- burkaman 9y agoMost people would get fired if they did this consistently, whether or not they were performing well. And in the vast majority of jobs, it's not possible to perform well if you don't show up on time.
- baursak 9y agoThat's called a delusional software developer bubble. Try this at a minimum wage job or pretty much anything outside of IT.
- gerbilly 9y agoI've worked plenty of those kinds of jobs. I worked retail, farm labour pumped gas etc. When I worked them I showed up on time. It depends what you sign up for. There are 'availability' jobs and 'ability' jobs. The more you try to find a job tailored to your ability, the less people tend to demand your availability. They will try to demand it anyway, but if you're good you can get them to overlook it. For now I'm lucky enough that I can live this way and still make customers happy.
- pixelbill 9y agoI think you nailed it, you are lucky. Most jobs do not function like this, to think otherwise is delusional. At every single employer I've ever worked for, if you left early or came in late despite accomplishing all your work, you would get in trouble. I have seen it happen over and over again. Typically, they will claim that you could have accomplished more work if you were only there for the extra time, regardless of the reality of the situation. Your time outside of work is worthless to the company, and they would rather waste your time so that they can (possibly) squeeze another drop from you.
- rsync 9y ago"Try this at a minimum wage job or pretty much anything outside of IT." A minimum wage job would have set hours - clock in and clock out - so his comment (strategy) would not be applicable.