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I am 100% one of these people. Unless something really unexpected comes up, then I choose whether I'm working that morning (which is less than 50%) and will usu

I am 100% one of these people. Unless something really unexpected comes up, then I choose whether I'm working that morning (which is less than 50%) and will usually finish the work after a few hours, then commit it either at EOD or next morning. I am still considered an over-achiever by a vast margin.

pizlonator 4y ago
Good for you. I don’t mind working with such people. I have zero interest in knowing how much of your 40 hours you actually spent working, only whether you did the thing you said you were going to do. An engineer that is more productive than everyone else but only works 5 hours a week still deserves to be rewarded the same way as an engineer who worked 40 hours but achieved the same result in the same calendar duration. If you really can overachieve while working very little then all it means is that you could have achieved more in your life if you spent more time working. And that’s none of my business.
- engineeringwoke 4y ago
  > If you really can overachieve while working very little then all it means is that you could have achieved more in your life if you spent more time working. I mean, not really right? That's the whole thing with the totem pole systems we create. You are only rewarded for over-achieving so much. Anything above that causes problems, because we are jealous creatures. There are daggers in mens' smiles. I have other interests in life and don't care that much about work, which is why I understand how it works in the first place. If I didn't like philosophy and speak four languages and lived around the world, then I wouldn't know that. Most engineers don't. If my company were willing to make me a principal and comp me with a big chunk of equity, then hell yeah. But almost no one is, and until I have kids, I don't want to start my own company or put too much effort into office politics. C'est la vie, c'est la mort.
  - pizlonator 4y ago
    Causes problems because of jealous creatures? Sounds like a really bad work environment. I tend to stay away from those.

pizlonator 4y ago

Good for you. I don’t mind working with such people. I have zero interest in knowing how much of your 40 hours you actually spent working, only whether you did the thing you said you were going to do. An engineer that is more productive than everyone else but only works 5 hours a week still deserves to be rewarded the same way as an engineer who worked 40 hours but achieved the same result in the same calendar duration. If you really can overachieve while working very little then all it means is that you could have achieved more in your life if you spent more time working. And that’s none of my business.

engineeringwoke 4y ago
> If you really can overachieve while working very little then all it means is that you could have achieved more in your life if you spent more time working. I mean, not really right? That's the whole thing with the totem pole systems we create. You are only rewarded for over-achieving so much. Anything above that causes problems, because we are jealous creatures. There are daggers in mens' smiles. I have other interests in life and don't care that much about work, which is why I understand how it works in the first place. If I didn't like philosophy and speak four languages and lived around the world, then I wouldn't know that. Most engineers don't. If my company were willing to make me a principal and comp me with a big chunk of equity, then hell yeah. But almost no one is, and until I have kids, I don't want to start my own company or put too much effort into office politics. C'est la vie, c'est la mort.
- pizlonator 4y ago
  Causes problems because of jealous creatures? Sounds like a really bad work environment. I tend to stay away from those.