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Ugh. I don't ever want to work for a company where my time tracking has to be so fine grained that I have to log bathroom breaks. Holy shit that sounds like a n

by WWLink 8y ago

Ugh. I don't ever want to work for a company where my time tracking has to be so fine grained that I have to log bathroom breaks. Holy shit that sounds like a nightmare!

cubano 8y ago
I actually worked for a company where they didn't allow me to have a bathroom break during working hours while I was remoting...such is life as a 53yo developer trying to make any kind of living in this industry. In fact, I had to log X keystrokes and Y LOC every hour in order to be paid for that hour...talk about being a factory worker.
- zdragnar 8y ago
  I hate to use the "you should be looking harder" trope, but every company I've worked at has had developers at or over 53, and not one of them had such onerous time tracking requirements. One tracked time to attempt to get r&d tax credits on certain work. The other was an agency that tracked time in case of disputes with unruly clients (such as the time we had gone through 3 project managers and 2 CFOs while we worked with them, and they were desperate to recover money from their own bad mistakes). The rest didn't track time at all. Not to mention that LOC as a metric has been an industry joke at least since the early 80's: http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.txt http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Negative_2000_Lin... I've heard of funnier versions of that story, but haven't tracked them down yet.
- 52-6F-62 8y ago
  That model doesn't even make sense to me. Some of the most productive hours are LOC removed. Counting keystrokes? That sounds nightmarish, man.
  - lostlogin 8y ago
    Gets me thinking. Back space, I can see arguments for it being +1, 0, -1 or -2?
  - TeMPOraL 8y ago
    This is utter horror and is pretty much asking for people to quickly code up something to type fake keystrokes when you take a break.
- lostlogin 8y ago
  LOC means ‘loss of consciousness’ in my industry, but I do t think that fits. What is it here?
  - jki275 8y ago
    Lines Of Code.
thecatspaw 8y ago
Usually its not that you specifically need to log your bathroom break, but rather that all your time you spent at work needs to be booked on _something_

by WWLink 8y ago

Ugh. I don't ever want to work for a company where my time tracking has to be so fine grained that I have to log bathroom breaks. Holy shit that sounds like a nightmare!

cubano 8y ago

I actually worked for a company where they didn't allow me to have a bathroom break during working hours while I was remoting...such is life as a 53yo developer trying to make any kind of living in this industry. In fact, I had to log X keystrokes and Y LOC every hour in order to be paid for that hour...talk about being a factory worker.

zdragnar 8y ago
I hate to use the "you should be looking harder" trope, but every company I've worked at has had developers at or over 53, and not one of them had such onerous time tracking requirements. One tracked time to attempt to get r&d tax credits on certain work. The other was an agency that tracked time in case of disputes with unruly clients (such as the time we had gone through 3 project managers and 2 CFOs while we worked with them, and they were desperate to recover money from their own bad mistakes). The rest didn't track time at all. Not to mention that LOC as a metric has been an industry joke at least since the early 80's: http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.txt http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Negative_2000_Lin... I've heard of funnier versions of that story, but haven't tracked them down yet.
52-6F-62 8y ago
That model doesn't even make sense to me. Some of the most productive hours are LOC removed. Counting keystrokes? That sounds nightmarish, man.
- lostlogin 8y ago
  Gets me thinking. Back space, I can see arguments for it being +1, 0, -1 or -2?
- TeMPOraL 8y ago
  This is utter horror and is pretty much asking for people to quickly code up something to type fake keystrokes when you take a break.
lostlogin 8y ago
LOC means ‘loss of consciousness’ in my industry, but I do t think that fits. What is it here?
- jki275 8y ago
  Lines Of Code.

thecatspaw 8y ago

Usually its not that you specifically need to log your bathroom break, but rather that all your time you spent at work needs to be booked on _something_