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,

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.