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If this is not spoof, it illustrates well how startup turns into corporation. They could allow occasional work from home. No instead they create The Dog Policy
by qwerta 13y ago
If this is not spoof, it illustrates well how startup turns into corporation.
They could allow occasional work from home. No instead they create The Dog Policy, the Dog Agreement and The Dog Tribunal Management. If someone has allergy or wants to bring his baby, they introduce another 10 agreements.
In my previous job colleague was bringing dog sometimes, I just asked him to keep it away from me (have serious allergy) and problem was solved.
- raverbashing 13y agoWell, I can understand why SparkFun might limit work from home: 1 - They're a hardware company. You can't take most of the equipment home 2 - EDA software is usually very expensive (and sometimes hardware demanding), so you can't just install it in a laptop
- qwerta 13y agoThats not really an excuse. VNC+VPN is around for decades. I worked for hardware manufacturer which produced 50+ pound UPS units. They do Arduino boards.
- michaelt 13y agoThe other week I tried running EDA software (Altium) over Remote Desktop. When trying to do any interactive PCB layout, there was substantial lag in redrawing the traces as I moved them, making it borderline unusable. I put up with it as I only had a small amount of work to do, but I certainly wouldn't expect anyone to use it in a serious business environment. And I had a gigabit ethernet link with the 'remote' computer a yard away. I dread to think what the performance would be like over a slower link.
- raverbashing 13y ago"I worked for hardware manufacturer which produced 50+ pound UPS units. They do Arduino boards. " What does the weight of the UPS has to do with the circuit complexity? Nothing. Arduino is probably more complex. If you used it though a VPN great, but it doesn't mean it will work with more modern systems (which could be hardware accelerated) and displaying lots of traces)
- masklinn 13y ago> They could allow occasional work from home. They do, the post was written by somebody working from home. And their business is manufacture and retail of microcontrollers boards and breakout boards. Most of the job is either R&D creating electronics (require expensive, usually shared, physical equipment) and handling the production and sale of their manufactured equipment which requires being on-site. > No instead they create The Dog Policy, the Dog Agreement and The Dog Tribunal Management. That makes sense. When you've got 5 people and 2 dogs you can handle it informally, when you have 150 people and 45 dogs you need a bit more structure to it. Reading the timeline, the alternatives were basically implementing a solid framework or banning dogs altogether. > In my previous job colleague was bringing dog sometimes It was one colleague doing it sometimes. Not a third of your colleagues doing it regularly.
- qwerta 13y agoI worked for hardware manufacturer. Lab was pretty restrictive, not even coffee or headphones allowed. I can not imagine dogs in this environment. Reading all those problems I think dog ban would be better alternative, especially if they allow work from home. But if it suits them, I guess they can attract lot of talent from dog fanatics.
- Frencil 13y agoThis is a bit of a false dichotomy here, as we do have occasional work from home which varies between positions and departments. That perk is a separate concern from the dog perk. I know of some employees who do choose to favor the former to opt out of the latter (working from home to be with their dog) because they don't want to bring their dog to work for whatever reason.