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Interesting that you knew and didn't call them out. I've often felt that some folks at my workplace has suspicions but didn't call me out on it since I got my w

• codingdave 5y ago
  To be fair, on some of my teams I would have called them out. That particular team was at a large company, for a sysadmin team whose job was to keep one of our enterprise platforms up and running. The dude kept it up and running. I truly didn't care how much time it took him, and there wasn't much intellectual property concern from his role. In a startup, small company, or a role more critical to the strategy and core business, or a role with a less defined scope, I would not have let it slide. To me, it is all about what the expected business relationship is. If I hire someone to do a specific scope and they get it done, that is one thing. If I hire them to a more generalized role whose job is to put a full-time effort into making the business succeed in whatever way they can, then I do expect full-time effort put into that job, and I expect them to look for more ways to help if there is spare time.