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When people say they "aren't working" they are talking about chitchat and watching YouTube, not doing the engineering part of software engineering.
by srtjstjsj 6y ago
When people say they "aren't working" they are talking about chitchat and watching YouTube, not doing the engineering part of software engineering.
- waheoo 6y agoThis is a very subjective claim to make. I regularly catch myself thinking and telling my wife I've had a very unproductive day and didn't work much when I spent the majority of it working through internal memos, email, and otherwise just getting caught up on the company happenings. It isn't really work. It's squarely in the bullshit side of "bullshit jobs". I don't really miss label other things like documentation, research, testing or project spiking but those too very regularly get forgotten and don't feel significant to bullet point in my daily standup.