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People will always make up reasons if the tone of the conversation feels adversarial, but just spend a week in r/cscareerquestions to see the unfiltered sentime

by lhorie 4y ago

People will always make up reasons if the tone of the conversation feels adversarial, but just spend a week in r/cscareerquestions to see the unfiltered sentiment: lots of people literally bragging about working 30 or even 20 hours per week as a full time employee, or who explicitly call out "slacking off" as a reason for preferring WFH. "Rest and vest". Etc.

feet 4y ago
Or maybe those are just the people who spend time on reddit disproportionately, it could be sampling error
- vehementi 4y ago
  Yeah, but the claim was that nobody was like this, while there are obviously a bunch of people explicitly doing this
  - feet 4y ago
    What percentage of the population is that person's cutoff for saying "nobody"? My assumption is that it likely was not literal If 3/80000 people do something, is the behavior significant or relevant?
    - actually_a_dog 4y ago
      Depends what the behavior is and who the 3 people are.
      - feet 4y ago
        The behavior is already defined in this thread Do only famous people matter? I'm not sure what point you're trying to make.
  - Beldin 4y ago
    ...explicitly claiming to do this. I don't know that subreddit; in general this sort of thing could become the thing being bragged about in a community, irrespective of reality.
  - kelnos 4y ago
    I think it's pretty common that when someone says "nobody does X", that's shorthand for "there is probably a very small number of people who do X, but not enough to make much of a difference". Sure, there are some people who abuse WFH, but I suspect it is far fewer people than Zuckerberg and Pichai suggest, and there are other, more important reasons for productivity losses. Reasons that have more to do with management and poor strategy than the actions of individual employees.
pcthrowaway 4y ago
/r/overemployed and Blind are even worse TBH, people in /r/cscareerquestions are often just trying to strike a somewhat tolerable WLB

by lhorie 4y ago

feet 4y ago

Or maybe those are just the people who spend time on reddit disproportionately, it could be sampling error

vehementi 4y ago
Yeah, but the claim was that nobody was like this, while there are obviously a bunch of people explicitly doing this
- feet 4y ago
  What percentage of the population is that person's cutoff for saying "nobody"? My assumption is that it likely was not literal If 3/80000 people do something, is the behavior significant or relevant?
  - actually_a_dog 4y ago
    Depends what the behavior is and who the 3 people are.
    - feet 4y ago
      The behavior is already defined in this thread Do only famous people matter? I'm not sure what point you're trying to make.
- Beldin 4y ago
  ...explicitly claiming to do this. I don't know that subreddit; in general this sort of thing could become the thing being bragged about in a community, irrespective of reality.
- kelnos 4y ago
  I think it's pretty common that when someone says "nobody does X", that's shorthand for "there is probably a very small number of people who do X, but not enough to make much of a difference". Sure, there are some people who abuse WFH, but I suspect it is far fewer people than Zuckerberg and Pichai suggest, and there are other, more important reasons for productivity losses. Reasons that have more to do with management and poor strategy than the actions of individual employees.

pcthrowaway 4y ago

/r/overemployed and Blind are even worse TBH, people in /r/cscareerquestions are often just trying to strike a somewhat tolerable WLB