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"The months leading up to the release were quite stressful for me. All of us were working on many things at the same time to not let the targeted release date s
by readthenotes1 2y ago
"The months leading up to the release were quite stressful for me. All of us were working on many things at the same time to not let the targeted release date slip too much. We never worked overtime, though. And we got additional paid time off after the release "
I'm kind of curious what the source of the stress was. It clearly wasn't being overworked.
- LostMyLogin 2y agoJudging by their passion for the project, I imagine just the idea of releasing it was stressful.
- nisegami 2y agoSounds like there was a lot of context switching involved? I can see how that would be stressful.
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- sverhagen 2y agoNot working overtime (beyond, say, 8 hours a day), doesn't mean you're not getting swamped during the time (8 hours) that you are working.
- ninalanyon 2y agoPerhaps you only develop easy stuff. There were plenty of days when I was wrung out long before I had worked the regulation 7.5 hours.
- pavon 2y agoI don't know the nature of their deadline, but when I've been working to meet a deadline that couldn't be moved for legitimate reasons, not being approved to work overtime made the stress worse not better. Something I made and cared about was going to ship broken because I couldn't fix the problems quickly enough. Weekends were spent trying not to think about everything I could be doing on the project right now.