I quit 3 jobs in the last 5 years and time tracking by management is high up on the reason list. I will now refuse to work for any organisation that does it. T

I quit 3 jobs in the last 5 years and time tracking by management is high up on the reason list. I will now refuse to work for any organisation that does it. The code and design quality turns to shit in such places. Everyone is trying to keep to the beat of their allotted time. Here’s your shovel. Dig a tonne of soil. You have 2 hours. No one is thinking of hiring a JCB because well thinking about that takes time from your time tracked task. Places that don’t track time probably get better results although they can’t prove it with metrics. Compare it to parenting, why aren’t we timing nappy/diaper changes? Oh because it’s mostly instinctive. A bit like programming! Sure we need to make sure we are on track but this can be done at much a higher level. Story points used properly fill this goal. Where I work we use them but there is no punishment for not meeting the story points. Not even a frown of disappointment that when we added up some numbers from a random distribution, they didn’t add up to some arbitrary number. Story points are a useful indicator, but they are part of a vector of information. We didn’t meet the story points because we worked on some technical debt, because ... for example. So in conclusion don’t you dare track my time and pull me in a room because I didn’t dig that hole quick enough.