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Re:Ask HN: How many (actual) hours do you work a week? by smt88 on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @08:37AM (#15449227)
It sounds like the problem is that your org's internal workflow depends on accurately estimating the time things will take.

As any experienced coder will tell you (and you've just told me), time estimates for tasks are nonsense. You should never run a team by relying on time estimates because they will always be wrong and people will be unhappy (both clients and employees).

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Re:Ask HN: How many (actual) hours do you work a week? by jklein11 on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @01:25PM (#15451445)
Yeah at the very least you should have gotten a rate hike when they changed the way your hours are calculated. You are now taking on the risk of the extra complexity of the project, which was previously on them. They should have to pay for that.
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