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NL is a strange place to work in IT, I worked there for a little while doing consulting work. Projects were not meeting deadlines yet everybody dropped the pen
by aeyes 6y ago
NL is a strange place to work in IT, I worked there for a little while doing consulting work.
Projects were not meeting deadlines yet everybody dropped the pen at 5pm sharp, I was baffled and amazed at the same time.
- dreen 6y agoI think that's the right approach. The alternative is crunch, but you can't have a workplace non-workaholics want to work at that does crunch.
- halfdan 6y agoI like this. Deadlines are set by humans and inherently flawed. It isn't right to go into crunch mode when a deadline isn't met - instead how the deadline was set and how it can be improved should be revisited.
- louwrentius 6y agoIt all depends on context. Most project deadlines are artificial bullshit anyway. And the reasons why a project is not on schedule may not be due to the behavior of people dropping their work at 5pm. Even so, tough luck: in NL most work to live, we don’t live to work like in some other countries. I really resonated with the original question of ASK HN.