He needs some time to recover from burnout. We all deserve time off work outside the two-day weekend. Two days are hardly enough time to recover from the five-day workweek, but if you’ve been working day after day and day after day without a break, a two-day weekend might sound like heaven on earth. It’s …
Seguir leyendo Software engineer working 70 hours a week quits after his manager berates him for not working at 7 PM on a Saturday: ‘My parents think I lost my mind, but for the first time in a long time, my chest feels light.’
Categoría:Software
‘I haven’t seen sunlight the past 11 months’: Boss demands software engineer work from 9:30 AM ‘until the work is done’ every day
There is no set’ end time’ for the workday, and it’s making his employees downright batty. Have you ever worked somewhere where your boss wants you to stay ‘until the work is finished?’ On my very first day at a restaurant, I asked the manager if I could leave at 9:45 because that was the …
Seguir leyendo ‘I haven’t seen sunlight the past 11 months’: Boss demands software engineer work from 9:30 AM ‘until the work is done’ every day
Company installs productivity tracking software that screenshots employees computers every 10 minutes, claims they can’t afford yearly raises anymore: ‘I’ve been at this place for 4 years and every year its the same story.’
It’s rough that she can’t call their bluff. It can be difficult to tell if the higher-ups at your company are being 100% honest with you. You’re not in the room when they discuss the precise figures for operational costs, revenue, and profit. You only know what they tell you, and what they tell the …
Seguir leyendo Company installs productivity tracking software that screenshots employees computers every 10 minutes, claims they can’t afford yearly raises anymore: ‘I’ve been at this place for 4 years and every year its the same story.’
Job interviewer tells job interviewee to shut up after he spent 5 minutes explaining his background and interrupted the interviewer 7 times: ‘John, you really have to shut up and listen.’
In this situation, he really needed to be told to shut up. Unfortunately, we aren’t really taught how to interview for jobs in school. There are a lot of things that you’d think would be common sense not to do in job interviews, but people make the same mistakes over and over again. One of …
Seguir leyendo Job interviewer tells job interviewee to shut up after he spent 5 minutes explaining his background and interrupted the interviewer 7 times: ‘John, you really have to shut up and listen.’
‘Option to declare email bankruptcy’: 25+ Wild fake product designs from ingenious UX designer
Some people use their powers for good, some use their powers for evil, and some use their powers for… chaos. That’s exactly what designer Soren Iverson has done with his «fake design a day» project that finds its home on Twitter. Iverson combines real-world user experience design skills with an instinct for satire, humor, and …
Seguir leyendo ‘Option to declare email bankruptcy’: 25+ Wild fake product designs from ingenious UX designer
‘They never mentioned this in Blade Runner’: Ford smart car refuses to start when software update fails, prompts derision from the internet
Car problems are a unique level of stress. When the thing you need to get from A to B starts throwing a tantrum about it, it automatically makes life seem so much harder (as well as more expensive). One of the many reasons that they are so upsetting is that there are so many factors …
Seguir leyendo ‘They never mentioned this in Blade Runner’: Ford smart car refuses to start when software update fails, prompts derision from the internet
Redditors Share the Most Useful Apps They Can’t Believe Are Still Free in Informative Thread
The first time I ever used Shazam, the application that identifies music with the click of a button, it felt like magic. To this day, it’s probably my favorite app. Wherever I go, if I hear a new song that I’m vibing to or one from my past that I totally forgot the name of, …
Seguir leyendo Redditors Share the Most Useful Apps They Can’t Believe Are Still Free in Informative Thread
Incompetent Tech Company Insists on Holding 3-Hour Meeting After Software Deployment, Making Dev Unavailable to Fix Bugs
In a classic case of ‘F around and find out’, redditor u/Sinaneos decided to let their incompetent team have their way after they insisted on holding a 3-hour meeting on a Friday instead of pushing it to Monday so that OP could address inevitable post-software deployment issues. Because OP was stuck in the pointless meeting, …
Seguir leyendo Incompetent Tech Company Insists on Holding 3-Hour Meeting After Software Deployment, Making Dev Unavailable to Fix Bugs
‘[She] ends up deleting our only copy’: Micromanager reassigned after randomly wiping IT department’s tech devices
Oh to be a fly on the wall when this IT director had to face her bosses… This excellent story of malicious compliance was shared by u/Barcs2k12. They write that when they were working in the IT department of a state agency, they encountered a Karen boss who was so sure she was smarter than …
Seguir leyendo ‘[She] ends up deleting our only copy’: Micromanager reassigned after randomly wiping IT department’s tech devices
Cheap Company Sends New Employee to Replace Software Department, Gets Schooled on the Difficulty of Their Jobs
A big problem in a lot of businesses is that they don’t really understand what their employees do all day. Ask any member of upper management to give a detailed description of what one of their minor subordinates does, and they would probably struggle. This is part of the reason that so many people see …
Seguir leyendo Cheap Company Sends New Employee to Replace Software Department, Gets Schooled on the Difficulty of Their Jobs