Should I fire an engineer for working on his side projects during office hours?

Re:Should I fire an engineer for working on his side project... by Chris2048 on Friday April 28, 2017 @05:39PM (#14223280)

First of all, "greater responsibility" is not an advantage, it is a liability you accept in return for other advantages.

If the delta is worth "tens of thousands of dollars in salary", consider what your free time spent on other things is worth. It might not be.

But "freedom to design my own role"? Where do you get this?

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Re:Should I fire an engineer for working on his side project... by Bartweiss on Friday April 28, 2017 @07:37PM (#14224062)

> First of all, "greater responsibility" is not an advantage, it is a liability you accept in return for other advantages.

This is an interesting point. We tend to conflate "greater control" with "greater responsibility", but we shouldn't. The first is a benefit, the second is a risk. They often go together, but having had a job with lots of responsibility and no control, they certainly don't have to.

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