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Does feeding your staff actually make them work longer, or just spend more hours at the office eating? If you stay at the office longer because you're eating th
by dragons 16y ago
Does feeding your staff actually make them work longer, or just spend more hours at the office eating? If you stay at the office longer because you're eating there, how many extra hours per day would you say you're at work because of that?
How about people with spouses or kids - don't they just want to eat their meals with their families? What about people who just prefer their own cooking? I can see this strategy backfiring for some, who might think "enough already, I don't want your food, I just want to go home."
- Stormbringer 16y agoDon't underestimate the social aspect of programming. The vast majority of geeks have no audience that will bask in their genius other than other geeks. If you do something absolutely brilliant who are you going to tell? Your boss? Odds are he won't appreciate your genius. Your mom? Odds are she won't appreciate it either. Your other relatives? Your friends? Some random person you run into at the bus shelter or train station? Geeks crave appreciation, because pretty much everything we do is invisible. Even the UI is widely acknowledged as only the tip of the iceberg, and for the most part nothing really interesting happens there(1). There is a deeply primitive aspect to geek culture, the sitting around the campfire swapping war stories element. And if you weren't there man, you just don't understand... (1) Even good UI design and usability/accessibility is mostly mechanical. "Honey I'm home! What did you do today at work dear? I left aligned all the labels on exactly the same pixel column! That's nice dear." Shoving alt labels on your UI elements and picking a boring (but readable) font ain't glamorous.