Woman ordered to repay $2k after her employer used software to track her time

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!

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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.

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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...

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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...

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