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Honestly, a manager who was ok with him going home after one day would be stupid. Then he's giving them no additional benefit for his fabled skills, and their b
by umjames 18y ago
Honestly, a manager who was ok with him going home after one day would be stupid. Then he's giving them no additional benefit for his fabled skills, and their best developer wouldn't be there most of the time and the rest of the team would probably resent it.
Instead of the manager forcing him to sit at his desk for 40 hours a week, he should be giving this guy more autonomy. You don't keep good developers by squelching their abilities or freedom, they'll get fed up and leave.
- wheels 18y agoThat missed the point though. He wasn't asking for more autonomy, apparently. He was asking to work less. A good developer that's not getting any more done than the other developers doesn't add value.
- stcredzero 18y agoA good developer that gets as much work done as the other developers adds at least as much value as they do. More, if the work is quality.
- stcredzero 18y agoWas he really asking to work less? He was getting equivalent results and asking for less useless ass-in-0seat time. I know for a fact that a guy like that reacts well to more autonomy. Doesn't matter so much what the developer asks for in this case. It's how the manager reacts when discovering talent like that. In this case, it was an epic fail for management.
- stcredzero 18y agoA devious manager would praise this guy, raise his pay 25%, but quietly give him double the work. A really devious one would find some way to document the resulting increase in productivity and take the credit. But the really insightful one would let this guy try to find ways to make the whole group more productive or reduce its bug rate.