Two things: 1- This urban legend has been recycled numerous times, b/c we've all thought of it at one point or another. I've seen it on Hacker News at least

Two things: 1- This urban legend has been recycled numerous times, b/c we've all thought of it at one point or another. I've seen it on Hacker News at least once before. If you have the ability to actually do this, you can start a successful consulting firm, so unless you're thick in the head, why take the punishment of having to show up at work everyday & not just start an outsourcing firm? 2- The unfortunate truth is, there are plenty of folks that have that work schedule. The difference is that they don't have the productivity part, b/c their organization is hopelessly broken. To me it felt like prison, but other HNers have posted that eventually they got used to it. I got the hell out of the second situation and went the startup route and am waaaaay happier. I can sit at home all day if I don't feel like working, and that's on me.