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Even in software engineering. I've seen devs in enterprise jobs who could put in an hour or two a day and still get "exceeds expectations" on their performance

• inkcapmushroom 3y ago
  Hey, it's me! I'm mostly valuable because I'm the only one on my project who hasn't quit at this point so I can help guide all the new people, including new project managers and tech leads. Even though I don't get much actual work done I'm there when they need to ask questions and that seems to be good enough. In fact if I had a remote position instead of in-office, I would probably meet this "lazy girl job" definition.
• OkayPhysicist 3y ago
  Yup. I'm a software dev at a small tech company, that mostly makes some industrial automation devices. My main job is "knowing the software": "XYZ is happening, is this a software bug?" "I'll take a look, but the software probably would only behave that way if hardware component ABC wasn't working". Maybe once a month or so a real software issue or feature request will come up, I'll spend 2-3 days implementing it, then another couple weeks will go by with it going through the (heavily manual) testing process. Don't get me wrong, those handful of days of work a month are not uncommonly pivotal in sealing multi-million dollar deals, so I'm earning my keep. But it would be nice if my employer recognized that I have 90%+ slack in my schedule, and let my fuck off and do my own (easily interuptable) thing.