Re:Netflix: Take as much vacation as you want.
by far33d on Thursday March 22, 2007 @02:51PM
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take home point, for startups and big slow companies: "The worst thing is for a manager to come in and tell me: `Let's give Susie a huge raise because she's always in the office.' What do I care? I want managers to come to me and say: `Let's give a really big raise to Sally because she's getting a lot done' - not because she's chained to her desk."
Re:Netflix: Take as much vacation as you want.
by jadams on Thursday March 22, 2007 @04:30PM
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Interesting policy. It sounds great, in theory, but would be hard to implement.
A recent employer gave me 3 weeks of vacation. Great! Never mind that they kept asking me to delay it, for a year because each artificial deadline they created ended up slipping. There's never a good time to take vacation.
EDIT Therefore, it's always a good time to take vacation (given sufficient notice).
Re:Netflix: Take as much vacation as you want.
by staunch on Thursday March 22, 2007 @10:45PM
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"It sounds great, in theory, but would be hard to implement."
There's nothing difficult about implementing it. Clearly your employer just doesn't buy the concept at all. They probably only offer 3 weeks (slightly higher than average) as a recruiting incentive, which is pretty dishonest if they don't actually let you use it.
The reasoning behind this concept is what's important. It's about treating employees as equal partners in a relationship, as opposed to children, like most employers do.
It'd be awesome if we could find out.
A recent employer gave me 3 weeks of vacation. Great! Never mind that they kept asking me to delay it, for a year because each artificial deadline they created ended up slipping. There's never a good time to take vacation.
EDIT Therefore, it's always a good time to take vacation (given sufficient notice).
There's nothing difficult about implementing it. Clearly your employer just doesn't buy the concept at all. They probably only offer 3 weeks (slightly higher than average) as a recruiting incentive, which is pretty dishonest if they don't actually let you use it.
The reasoning behind this concept is what's important. It's about treating employees as equal partners in a relationship, as opposed to children, like most employers do.
Definitely read this essay if you havent: http://paulgraham.com/opensource.html