Re:Ask HN: How do I deal with the "unpaid overtime crowd"?
by MortenK on Friday March 28, 2014 @01:41PM
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I think I have not formulated myself very well.
A bad company is "a company where crisis' occurs daily or weekly instead of maybe once every couple of months." In such a company, crisis is the standard, not the deviation. In such a company there'll be rampant requests for overtime.
That's a terrible place to work. As I recommended to OP, if he is in such a company (which it could sound like), he should leave.
A good place is one where most people consistently leave after their standard 7-8 hours. But IF there is a fire, then it's a terrible attitude for a developer to adopt a "not my problem, time's up" attitude.
This doesn't only go for devs by the way, it's the same for managers and any other role really.
So you have a case where there is a "clock puncher" that is pushing out changes, leaving and then issues occur that others must stay and clean up after.
Would you share if your point of view would be different if that "clock puncher" was your best developer and nobody had to stay late to clean up after his/her mess?