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Because you're monitoring someone constantly. Imagine if your manager sat behind you breathing on your neck while you coded. He has a pack of tic-tacs so his b

Because you're monitoring someone constantly. Imagine if your manager sat behind you breathing on your neck while you coded. He has a pack of tic-tacs so his breath is fine. He crushes the tic tacs with his teeth everytime he thinks you're not working

JoeAltmaier 9y ago
So many, many workers are monitored by human supervisors already. Not shown to be significantly different.
- dictum 9y ago
  What's the difference between having a camera recording you for 1 hour a workday, in 8 blocks of 7-8 minutes, and having a camera recording your entire workday, or even a single hour with no breaks?
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- at-fates-hands 9y ago
  I've worked in a few place like that. Micromanagement pushed people to do just enough to get by. They also created strategies to avoid the extreme oversight and inflate their metrics to stay off the managers bad list. All this does is push people to fight the system more.
  - logfromblammo 9y ago
    I have never been less productive than at the job where every task was broken down into tiny chunks, and I had to use a software stopwatch to log my time spent working on each. And I have never been more productive than at the job where my weekly payroll timecard consisted of a radio button choice labeled "work week" and "vacation week", with a signature field. The micromanagement encouraged me to spend all my time gaming the stopwatches and work plan spreadsheets instead of doing anything useful. That whole operation was a budget-padding scam, and I bailed as soon as I could. I have better things to do with my life than sit on ass and help my supervisor lie to their supervisor in order to keep the checks coming in. "Oh, my gosh! Writing and maintaining this glorified CRUD app is so hard! We're gonna need a bit more budget next year, and here are exactly the metrics you will need to justify that." Every interview since has been influenced by that experience, because I'm not walking blind into a corrupt workplace again.
- falcolas 9y ago
  Supervisors can't monitor every worker every single minute that they are on shift. Supervisors also have their own work to do, which further limits the direct supervision each worker receives. On the flip side, these bands can monitor every worker every minute of the day. And even the top 10% of workers are likely to receive reprimands for having a bad day, be it a sore knee or being distracted because their children are acting oddly. There's no judgment involved when its automated like this - just numbers that have to be kept above a certain line.

JoeAltmaier 9y ago

So many, many workers are monitored by human supervisors already. Not shown to be significantly different.

dictum 9y ago
What's the difference between having a camera recording you for 1 hour a workday, in 8 blocks of 7-8 minutes, and having a camera recording your entire workday, or even a single hour with no breaks?
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at-fates-hands 9y ago
I've worked in a few place like that. Micromanagement pushed people to do just enough to get by. They also created strategies to avoid the extreme oversight and inflate their metrics to stay off the managers bad list. All this does is push people to fight the system more.
- logfromblammo 9y ago
  I have never been less productive than at the job where every task was broken down into tiny chunks, and I had to use a software stopwatch to log my time spent working on each. And I have never been more productive than at the job where my weekly payroll timecard consisted of a radio button choice labeled "work week" and "vacation week", with a signature field. The micromanagement encouraged me to spend all my time gaming the stopwatches and work plan spreadsheets instead of doing anything useful. That whole operation was a budget-padding scam, and I bailed as soon as I could. I have better things to do with my life than sit on ass and help my supervisor lie to their supervisor in order to keep the checks coming in. "Oh, my gosh! Writing and maintaining this glorified CRUD app is so hard! We're gonna need a bit more budget next year, and here are exactly the metrics you will need to justify that." Every interview since has been influenced by that experience, because I'm not walking blind into a corrupt workplace again.
falcolas 9y ago
Supervisors can't monitor every worker every single minute that they are on shift. Supervisors also have their own work to do, which further limits the direct supervision each worker receives. On the flip side, these bands can monitor every worker every minute of the day. And even the top 10% of workers are likely to receive reprimands for having a bad day, be it a sore knee or being distracted because their children are acting oddly. There's no judgment involved when its automated like this - just numbers that have to be kept above a certain line.