Yea, those people need to learn to work on their own stuff. I do so much of my own/oss work at work and am surprised at how everyone has always said I'm doing great and my stuff is always out faster and more tested than everyone else.

..expectations are low, and there's value in keeping it that way! :)

(all my favoruite stuff has been stuff I've worked on for myself, that doesn't earn any money. I find almost all of it more worthwhile than any of the technical entrenched garbage I've written in the corporate world for the past decade of my life)

Be careful with this. Companies often claim ownership of anything that you do during work hours.

...which can have wide-reaching implications if you release work product produced during work hours as OSS. While your company may seem like they don't care now, that can always change. Copyrights last a long time. Please don't risk the well-being of an open-source project by surreptitiously submitting code that your company owns.

Everybody should have an anonymous shell corp in Caribbean and release spare time work via those...

you're not part of the cabal so you'll just get insta-arrested

Seriously not a bad idea.

I hope you realize that working on your own stuff at work can get you in trouble.