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Surely a rational person would care about doing a solid day’s work while maintaining their health, sanity, relationships etc.
by bigred100 7y ago
Surely a rational person would care about doing a solid day’s work while maintaining their health, sanity, relationships etc.
- mandelbrotwurst 7y agoWhy? A wise person, maybe. But a rational one? It all depends on what they're optimizing for. Someone might "rationally" come to the conclusion that the output of their work is extremely important, so much so that they are willing to sacrifice everything else.
- Aeolun 7y agoWhy is that rational? If I go into the office and spend a day looking at cat pictures (which certainly makes me happier than attending the endless meetings) I get paid just as much.
- bigred100 7y agoI can’t imagine this is a good long-term career idea unless it’s something you do only on occasion when you’re mentally exhausted or something.
- Aeolun 7y agoI think it’s just that I believe that in any company big enough to have endless meetings it’s fairly possible to put in (almost) no work and still fly under the radar.
- turk73 7y agoI've seen the same thing at every large company I have worked for. Plenty of slacker employees watching Youtube, gaming, making coffee runs, you name it. Big companies carry people, big companies carried me, even. When you have an infant at home and you're running on no sleep for 5-8 mos. you will understand. The hardest I ever worked was at a small company with only six developers. It was surprisingly unpleasant, not because I had to code all the time, but because I had been a tech lead and had people to collaborate with on solving problems. This new place was all heads down devs, like some kind of throwback to an earlier age, and those people didn't want to chitchat--at all. Weird culture. I don't mind going off and coding and testing for hours on end and I was the most "in the zone" I have ever been on that job. Yet something was disturbingly missing and it was that openness to discussing solutions. I think it was the matter of resource constraints at small shops that annoys me the most, though.
- perl4ever 7y agoOnly if you can stay awake in the meetings. For me, meetings where I don't participate and nothing concerns me are like a soporific.
- mbrodersen 7y agoI have never met a truly rational person. I have met lots of people who claim they are rational but clearly aren't.