It's not really about the employer, it's Fred. Fred is treating his assigned work as though it was titled 'Implement Feature X (and also anything else you'd lik

It's not really about the employer, it's Fred. Fred is treating his assigned work as though it was titled 'Implement Feature X (and also anything else you'd like to do)'. That's just bad discipline. There's a time and a place for refactoring. If Feature X cannot actually be done without refactoring then mark that ticket as blocked, and start work on a new ticket that will unblock it.