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My main issue with double dipping is that people with free time should be mentoring or tackling debt and other such things rather than waiting to be told what t
by goalieca 3y ago
My main issue with double dipping is that people with free time should be mentoring or tackling debt and other such things rather than waiting to be told what to do.
- brandall10 3y agoWell... they're certainly tackling debt.
- Maken 3y agoThat sounds like a manager problem, to be fair.
- throwoutway 3y agoHa, HN is amazing. the other day there was a thread about people not wanting to be micromanaged by managers on here and another about how managers need to carefully choose the words for "you need to do X" so as not to offend The alternative is that workers should own their own work versus waiting to be told what to do, which is what is being proposed here. But apparently you think that's a management issue. I'm now realizing nobody really knows what they want their manager to do
- leokennis 3y agoSo, people who work more efficiently than their peers should be rewarded with more work instead of more free time (in which these people chose to do a second job)?
- Gustomaximus 3y agoGenerally they are rewarded with seniority and better pay. Or better offers as management move to other companies and want to bring high performers with them.
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- profmumbles 3y agorewarded with seniority? better pay? what worl or er are you living in? doesn't happen in my world.
- jzb 3y agoThat carries a lot of assumptions - e.g. that the workplace a person is in allows and rewards those things. Some do, some don't. If the workplace doesn't, that's not the fault of the individual employee. It's also a bit weird to look down on "double dipping" at the individual level but we work in an industry that aspires to do as little as possible and maximize profit at the company level as much as possible. Many of our employers have or want to have business models where they sell software subscriptions and maximize the revenue for writing the software once. If your employer manages to sell 2x as many subscriptions for the same work, then they're smart and have a great business model. If a person figures out how to juggle several jobs, they're double dipping. Note: I was brought up to believe in 40 hours work for 40 hours pay, etc. I still believe that, and I wouldn't short my employer in order to hold a second job. But I have held full time jobs plus doing writing on the side. If the view is that a salary entitles an employer to every single productive second of my time, that salary better be amazing.
- charles_f 3y agoIf tech debt doesn't already get fixed, I doubt it will ever be. Taking time to fix debt is a mentality issue: you'll need to prioritize that work against racking up features, and that means seeing them as more important. If someone in that situation started signaling they have free time, they'd likely get assigned to shovel more features rather than fixing debt.