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> If you do it on company time you can be fired, and quite frankly we believe you should. Bullshit. A company can fire you for any reason. Yes, this is a perf

by columbo 14y ago

> If you do it on company time you can be fired, and quite frankly we believe you should. Bullshit. A company can fire you for any reason. Yes, this is a perfectly valid reason to fire someone. You could also fire someone for showing up to work at 8:05 instead of 8:00. And you can fire someone because "You're the boss". Despite that, what a bullshit article. "If you aren't 100% working for your company from 8am to 5pm then we think you should be fired" is all they are trying to say. No surfing the net, no testing out new ideas, no chatting with coworkers, no personal calls and EXACTLY 30 minutes during lunch: you are hired to sit, do work, punch out and fuck off. People like this rile me up a bit... I've worked for places like that, and people like this, never again.

rdtsc 14y ago
Depends on the state. Usually the "at will employment" is what your boss tells you is a great feature of a the state law "oh look you can quite anytime you want without question, isn't that great!?" -- that was how it was sold to me. Usually it is a feature used by the employees to fire someone any time for any reason (yes, I mean _any_ reason, race, sexual orientation, shoe color, it will just officially be presented as "restructuring").
kamaal 14y ago
"Do as we say or.." kind of places are really the worst. I once worked under a guy, he had very serious problems if some checked out a new tool/language/library/framework etc at work or even tried to learn something new to him like say Haskell. Over a period of time I just figured out he was just plainly jealous that some one young would over take him. Those are the last kind of places you should work at, also they are worst team players you can ever get.
derefr 14y ago
> No surfing the net, no testing out new ideas, no chatting with coworkers, no personal calls and EXACTLY 30 minutes during lunch: you are hired to sit, do work, punch out and fuck off. That's the hourly-employee version of this. The salaried-employee version, epitomized by Japanese office culture, is something more like: > We expect you to show up at 9AM on the dot, but to 'enjoy your job' enough to not clock out until 9 or 10PM every night. Of course, you'll probably only be actually working for about three hours of that, but it doesn't matter. Butt-in-seat, long as possible. Play some video games on your computer or something. Just don't let it look like you're enjoying yourself.

by columbo 14y ago

rdtsc 14y ago

Depends on the state. Usually the "at will employment" is what your boss tells you is a great feature of a the state law "oh look you can quite anytime you want without question, isn't that great!?" -- that was how it was sold to me. Usually it is a feature used by the employees to fire someone any time for any reason (yes, I mean _any_ reason, race, sexual orientation, shoe color, it will just officially be presented as "restructuring").

kamaal 14y ago

"Do as we say or.." kind of places are really the worst. I once worked under a guy, he had very serious problems if some checked out a new tool/language/library/framework etc at work or even tried to learn something new to him like say Haskell. Over a period of time I just figured out he was just plainly jealous that some one young would over take him. Those are the last kind of places you should work at, also they are worst team players you can ever get.

derefr 14y ago

> No surfing the net, no testing out new ideas, no chatting with coworkers, no personal calls and EXACTLY 30 minutes during lunch: you are hired to sit, do work, punch out and fuck off. That's the hourly-employee version of this. The salaried-employee version, epitomized by Japanese office culture, is something more like: > We expect you to show up at 9AM on the dot, but to 'enjoy your job' enough to not clock out until 9 or 10PM every night. Of course, you'll probably only be actually working for about three hours of that, but it doesn't matter. Butt-in-seat, long as possible. Play some video games on your computer or something. Just don't let it look like you're enjoying yourself.