Why did I leave Google or, why did I stay so long?

Re:Why did I leave Google or, why did I stay so long? by adrianb on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @09:33AM (#26166654)

He's giving a few examples for work-life balance and I have completely different feelings about - from the 11 AM Yoga class (pretty ridiculous IMO) to taking a personal day (reasonable, people need their day off, maybe the personal day is for an urgent medical check-up?) to working during the weekend (unless the entire service is down and I'm the oncall, it can wait).

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Re:Why did I leave Google or, why did I stay so long? by vmception on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @09:56AM (#26166921)

Why are several people denigrating the 11am mindfulness session?

We're not going to talk about people showing up to work on acid to perform but make fun of people out of college taking advantage of the mental health and exercise course offered on site for an hour, and then excuse an entiiiiire personal day just because its ... more familiar?

oooookay.

just a perspective.

this manager didn't know how to schedule his workers, and couldn't calibrate it and chose to go with "entitled young people are the problem" just like people probably said about him and millennials, there's nothing more to read into this article.

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Re:Why did I leave Google or, why did I stay so long? by UncleMeat on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @09:43AM (#26166783)

Isn't that an indication that he sees these things as equivalent? 11am yoga is just as ridiculous as refusing to work weekends. This is precisely the sort of toxic attitude that keeps a lot of people away from startups.

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Re:Why did I leave Google or, why did I stay so long? by cbarrick on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @10:29AM (#26167392)

The 11 AM Yoga class does not sound ridiculous to me precisely because of the nature of tech work: we don't need to all be working together at the exact same time, as opposed to most other jobs.

Want to trade an hour in the middle of the day on a Tuesday with showing up an hour early Wednesday? Do it. What's the problem?

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Re:Why did I leave Google or, why did I stay so long? by vmception on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @05:25PM (#26172640)

I was watching Jurassic Park (1993) the other day, and I got a kick out of the software engineer rambling about a compile taking a long time as an excuse for going on a break

Also software engineer singular, I guess an expense was spared after all

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Re:Why did I leave Google or, why did I stay so long? by bcrosby95 on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @09:59AM (#26166970)

It's almost like different people value different things. I knew a guy that got a massage every day at 2pm but he also was at work until 10pm. This is also why - even with a flexible work schedule - it's useful to have some set of "core hours" everyone should be available.

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Re:Why did I leave Google or, why did I stay so long? by watwut on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @10:24AM (#26167335)

In a company I work for, some people take time to exercise at lunchtime - 11yoga seem to fit right there. Basically, lunch then takes longer then if you eat during that time, but not by horribly lot.

I does not seem to me so horrible honestly, assuming that you then stay longer to make up for time spend by exercising. I dont do that, because I need to take kids out of school basically, but when I had time to exercise a bit in the middle of the day I was more productive.

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