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Almost fired someone for watching a movie
- gexla 16y agoI would have quit to save him the trouble of the decision. Developers should be judged on more than an incident like this. If the developer is as productive or more productive than the others, does it really matter if you catch him / her watching a movie sometimes?
- knieveltech 16y agoYeah, it really does. Not only is this sort of behavior miserably unprofessional it corrodes morale around the office when everyone who isn't a developer catches wind that the prima donnas in IT are sitting around playing video games and watching movies while everyone else is busting their ass.
- gexla 16y agoPersonally, I can't concentrate on doing development for eight straight hours. My focus doesn't fit in a neat box like that. Some days I'm burnt at four hours (but I might have had superhuman output during that time) and other days I can do marathons of crazy focus for longer than eight hours.
- gargs 16y agoWell, then, I would blame the non-ITs (managers) for a bad organizational model where they don't have enough work for their IT department. I have a sense that this might hold true for more non-development IT roles as it is very rare for actual developers to sit around watch movies doing nothing unless they're truly in need of a break. Engineers love to code...or the good ones do.