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Re:Ask HN: What did you do to improve your company? by stack_underflow on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @07:13PM (#24414751)
I'll second this with a personal anecdote as well.

If you do want to do this, clear it explicitly with your manager/person doing your perf reviews...

I had a non-technical manager who thought I was "avoiding" work by doing this instead of shipping new features and received a negative review because of it, even after explaining the situation.

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Re:Ask HN: What did you do to improve your company? by dominotw on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @12:02PM (#24422423)
> who thought I was "avoiding" work by doing this instead of shipping new features

Haha same. Mine thought these were unfinished tasks from my previous work and only have to do it now because i was slacking before.

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