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How is this different from Jira, or remote worker software that periodically captures your screen to be sure you're actually writing code and not grabbing a cof
by chimi 7y ago
How is this different from Jira, or remote worker software that periodically captures your screen to be sure you're actually writing code and not grabbing a coffee?
The amount of surveillance I've seen lately is scary. We had a new policy come down from on-high that said we can't bring laptops to meetings anymore because whatever the folks upstairs were using to track us said there were too many emails being sent by people who were scheduled in outlook as being in a meeting.
I'm required to go to these pointless meetings and also required to get all my points done by sprint close, almost always requiring lots of overtime, that I can't track. I have to fill out timesheets, but I can't put more than 8 hours a day even though I work 14, but yet if I'm out of the office for half a day for a dentist appointment, I can only report 4 hours even though I skip lunch almost every day to rework some story the BA's got wrong because they didn't really care what the business wanted.
And if we don't meet the sprint deadline, all hell breaks loose and the bosses ask why the developers are losing productivity when the system is 1000x bigger now but you require us to put the same points on stories as when there was no code written, no other systems to integrate with, no regression tests to execute. And don't even think about working on automated testing because that's not a deliverable. No, you need to retest those 100 scenarios manually. Then the business says, "Oh wait, we forgot about this scenario." Recode, Retest, Re-architect the system to track more data, rebuild all the forms, reports, audit logs, on and on...
But I have to care and all the mistakes made up stream from me are on my back to solve and I don't even get to record how long it actually takes?
Frankly, if you're waiting my table and I need more water, you should bring me more water.
If surveillance helped me meet my customer demands better, then by all means, watch me like a hawk. If it's just there as automated paperwork for the project manager then buzz off.
- phyzome 7y ago> How is this different from Jira, or remote worker software that periodically captures your screen to be sure you're actually writing code and not grabbing a coffee? Those are... two extremely different things. Did you really intend to put a communal chalkboard and an invasive surveillance program in the same category?
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- eweise 7y agoThey are different but certainly Jira is tracking your individual productivity and reporting to leadership.
- sb8244 7y agoThe difference is that one let's you set your terms for working while the other forces management's practices on you.
- pensatoio 7y agoIf you’re working somewhere that treats Jira stays as a measure of your worth as an employee, that’s a company problem, not a Jira problem. We literally wouldn’t function as a team if we didn’t use some kind of task/epic tracking. Remote screen capture isn’t even on the same planet as Jira.
- eweise 7y agoMuch of management's function is to measure and improve worker productivity. http://bostonreview.net/race/caitlin-c-rosenthal-how-slavery-inspired-modern-business-management http://bostonreview.net/race/caitlin-c-rosenthal-how-slavery...
- about_help 7y ago"If surveillance helped me meet my customer demands better, then by all means, watch me like a hawk. If it's just there as automated paperwork for the project manager then buzz off." This is the primary problem. Managers exist because they're supposed to know the business and manage projects. Normalizing surveillance across society in the name of efficiency or profit is already sending us down a dark path. I guess we'll have to legislate privacy and jail anyone violating it.
- arthur_pryor 7y ago> Frankly, if you're waiting my table and I need more water, you should bring me more water. is the logic here that as a software developer, your quality of life should certainly be better than that of the people waiting on you? that seems wrong to me. i mean, i know this is a common sort of latent assumption in our society, but it is one that's worth examining. regardless, you need to find a more sane and human dev job.
- forgotmypwd123 7y agoYour job sucks. Leave.