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I like the big companies because I can be paid a hefty six figure salary while working 4 hour days and spending the rest of the hours doing woodworking, gardeni
by irrational 2y ago
I like the big companies because I can be paid a hefty six figure salary while working 4 hour days and spending the rest of the hours doing woodworking, gardening, home remodeling, baking, exercising, reading, etc.
- hyggetrold 2y agoIt's an odd thing - at all the big companies I've worked for, you can usually get all your work for the day done in 4 hours. Between meetings and status waste, that's all anybody expects from you.
- ghaff 2y agoWhat you personally do is only part of your job. Communicating with others is probably at least the other 50%. Even if your an individual consultant your clients will expect you to communicate with them.
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- rendaw 2y agoDo meetings typically involve communication? I'm not familiar with practices in various companies.
- lawlessone 2y agopsst, stop saying it. Companies would rather overwork 1 person than pay 2 and have both slightly under utilized
- htrp 2y agoDo you count the meetings as work?
- randomdata 2y agoSurely. It'd be hard to get to 4 hours otherwise.
- irrational 2y agoYes. I have one 10-15 minute standup a day and one 15 minute one on one with my boss a week. Other than those I almost never have any meetings.
- Aurornis 2y agoI wish I could be so lucky. In recent years, every job I've worked for has reached a point where I had to endure 4 hours of meetings per day before we could even begin to get work done (if we were lucky) The departments where people were casually putting in 4 hours per day mostly got axed during COVID and again during the 2024 recessions. There was a period of time where a lot of teams accumulated a lot of people so they could spread the work thin. Eventually management started catching on and put an end to that.
- consf 2y ago[dead]