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Re:Woman ordered to repay $2k after her employer used softwa... by bitL on Friday January 13, 2023 @05:20PM (#34374712)
I worked as a VP in a company that tracked everyone in 10-minute intervals. Just having this tracking led to some managers inhumanely squeezing devs and almost all devs ended up burned out after a few years. They went to great lengths to reject any time slots where devs showed insufficient intensity on their keyboard/mouse or if they spotted anything non-work-related on dev desktop screenshots. However, when it came to manipulating metrics to look good (even down to a fraud where they lowered metrics of their devs they didn't like), it was all fine. This culture was enforced by the CEO/COO so there was not much I could do about it outside shielding my people and then leaving when my bosses went even more insane.
Re:Woman ordered to repay $2k after her employer used softwa... by bagels on Friday January 13, 2023 @05:32PM (#34374833)
How did anyone stay there when that was first implemented?
Re:Woman ordered to repay $2k after her employer used softwa... by bitL on Friday January 13, 2023 @05:47PM (#34374969)
Competitive salary and remote work.
Re:Woman ordered to repay $2k after her employer used softwa... by ryandrake on Friday January 13, 2023 @06:03PM (#34375141)
Wow, I've heard of ridiculous job performance metrics like "hours in chair" and "lines of code" but "sufficient keyboard/mouse intensity" is a new one to me! So I need to wiggle the mouse frantically and mash the keyboard all day and I'm "working"? Holy cow, that's wild!
Re:Woman ordered to repay $2k after her employer used softwa... by bitL on Friday January 13, 2023 @06:12PM (#34375207)
I almost had a team fired for "too many lines of code" when I was there :D A billionaire CEO went berserk and it took considerable amount of effort to cool him down.
Re:Woman ordered to repay $2k after her employer used softwa... by Zancarius on Saturday January 14, 2023 @12:06AM (#34377521)
Now THAT'S bizarre. Was that because the team was making others look bad by outperforming them via the LOC metric? lol...
Re:Woman ordered to repay $2k after her employer used softwa... by bitL on Saturday January 14, 2023 @12:35AM (#34377628)
No, that was because that team did a rewrite of an existing product and one of the "optimistic" reasons for the rewrite was to make the code smaller...