Re:Want good programmers? Then pay them.
by Apreche on Thursday May 03, 2012 @01:59PM
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There is probably some circumstance I would work a little extra. Seriously, you want ever comment on every blog to be written like a legal contract or a game rulebook? I wasn't about to devote an entire paragraph covering every possible scenario where I may or may not work more or less hours. You get the idea.
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Umm, I was supporting your phrasing. :) i.e., that most people get that you will work extra hours when truly required.
And that even a supposedly more precise phrasing suffers from the problem that the listener may not interpret the words the way the speaker intended them to be.
I personally feel that a categorical statement such as yours is less amenable to misunderstanding than a equivocating one. Thanks.
Anyway, we're generating heat rather light in this subthread.
rather than implying that the people who took you at your word did something wrong, you should admit that you used a poor choice of words.
As I said, you could simply have said, "I will only work OT in exceptional cases, and these cases should be rare". It doesn't take an entire paragraph to get this point across. You get the idea.