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We call working long hours “heroics” at my company, it’s possibly a common term? I’m unsure. In any event, Heroics are strongly discouraged. There are peopl
by sodapopcan 6y ago
We call working long hours “heroics” at my company, it’s possibly a common term? I’m unsure. In any event, Heroics are strongly discouraged. There are people who do it, of course, but they get no special accolades for it and in turn they don’t do any kind of boasting about it.
- justin_oaks 6y agoI've also heard of "heroes" as referring to software developers that are seen as great by management because they're always working hard to put out fires (usually that they caused). Meanwhile those who write stable software and work normal hours are not praised because stability is not noticed. Now that I think about it, I guess we're talking about the same thing.
- sodapopcan 6y agoHa, yes! Same thing :)
- codenesium 6y agoHeroes are like firefighters. In my experience the firefighters are often the arsonists.