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Re:Ask HN: How do detect a crappy boss / toxic environment w... by ljw1001 on Thursday April 07, 2016 @07:33PM (#11451541)
yeah, someone recently asked me to fix a bug deep in their code, which they said would take about 20 hours with no discussion of salary or any other steps in the process.
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Re:Ask HN: How do detect a crappy boss / toxic environment w... by eru on Friday April 08, 2016 @01:13AM (#11452702)
Charge them. That sounds like at least a week of fulltime work. Check what consultants take for that amount of work in your area.

If they say no, you say no.

Also, if there's no pay, wouldn't you have copyright over that part of the code then? You could arbitrarily tell to stop using your code at any time, and sue them if they don't..

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Re:Ask HN: How do detect a crappy boss / toxic environment w... by spinlock on Thursday April 07, 2016 @11:33PM (#11452406)
They _said_ it would be 20 hours? That's crazy.
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