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I am so sorry. When we talk about collateral damage from the pandemic, nobody thinks of the parents who had their kids home for months. In Australia, the lockdo
by DigitalSea 5y ago
I am so sorry. When we talk about collateral damage from the pandemic, nobody thinks of the parents who had their kids home for months. In Australia, the lockdowns were quite severe. My wife and I were aware that while we were suffering, our kids were too. Their lives were completely turned upside down. Sadly, kids lack the needed brain capacity to deal with emotions and serious changes in routine, so it compounds the stress.
To top it all off, for us, we were renovating and being without a working kitchen, bathroom, toilet for months and weeks on end, it compounded things for us. I don't know how we survived or how others did. We live in an era where we are afforded the ability to have flexible working hours, starting early and finishing early. Or chopping/changing hours and days. Your colleagues were wrong to criticise you, the metric of performance should never be measured based on hours working, but the output and quality of your work.
I once worked at a place where someone was fired because his number of commits was lower than the other developers. He was a brilliant developer and always got his work done. But apparently his commits were too small (he liked to lump a lot of things into commits, instead of several smaller ones).
Did you end up finding another job?
- stef25 5y agoThanks :) In all fairness, while the colleagues were assholes I was out of my depth at the job and there was no support so getting fired was the right solution. Money was never really an issue and I did start an awesome new job 2 months ago. And the kids are thriving. The only thing that would have made those 2 years worse is renovations! We've gone through 2 of those, luckily before the pandemic. So I very much feel your pain and hope it's all working out for you now.
- BoxOfRain 5y ago>I once worked at a place where someone was fired because his number of commits was lower than the other developers. He was a brilliant developer and always got his work done. But apparently his commits were too small (he liked to lump a lot of things into commits, instead of several smaller ones). Bloody hell, I can't imagine how dysfunctional other things must have been if this was allowed to happen without someone pointing out what a daft rationale for firing someone that is.
- SketchySeaBeast 5y agoYeah, that right there is getting gold in the Olympics for "measuring the wrong thing".
- wincy 5y agoMy work tried measuring commits and PRs briefly as a metric. At the time I was doing a bunch of semi-automatic upgrading of repos with some tools is written for a substantial number of our micro services. So I looked about 300x more productive than the second most productive employee because I was batching hundreds of PRs using our GitHub API. It prompted the IT guy who was supposed to set up and demo the tool to higher ups come over and show it to me, we had a pretty good laugh. I like to think the absurdity of my numbers is what caused the idea to be scrapped.