> If you're doing the equivalent of 1 day of work over 5 days, and it's OK to your manager As developers, we want our managers to trust us. We don't want mana

> If you're doing the equivalent of 1 day of work over 5 days, and it's OK to your manager As developers, we want our managers to trust us. We don't want managers to micro- us and question our time estimates. If I say doing some task will take X weeks, I don't want management to say "do it faster". The manager doesn't know the technical details and complications like the developer does. Here, OP is explicitly abusing that trust, taking most of the week off but pretending to be working. He/she is meeting expectations by misrepresenting the complexity and difficulty of the work.