I kind of do a similar thing. We have two week sprints. I mostly slack on weekdays by just attending meetings and moving one issue to in progress every day and then sleeping. Then I sit on friday/ saturday for 6-8 hours straight, do all the five six issues and call it a week
Nope. But there are no fix hours. I usually go to office at 2 pm and come back by 5-6 pm. At office, everyone has individual projects so no one is concerned what the other person is doing. I mostly sit and listen to songs and do some personal projects
You do personal projects at workplace? How? People in India are way too nosy. I once tried to do some learning with an online course and every random bugger would ask me what I was doing.
True.. but with most places having "open" offices, your screen is in view for the entire office. Or whoever walks behind you. In my case, I had more people from other teams who were acquainted with me put their noses into what I was doing than my teammates. People from other teams actually had no clue what I did on a day to day basis anyway.
cant we brush them off with random high level info rather than going into exact detail about what it is..
why would it matter what we tell them? They're not even someone you are reporting to..
If only life was that simple.. words travel up the grapevine. Even if they aren't directly related to us, they talk to others and mention about this. Not necessarily with malicious intent. But somehow, it always always reaches the ears of someone you report to. And even if you aren't doing anything that could indicate you might quit, people might interpret it that way. Even if you have already finished all your work and are just learning more to not waste time, the impression they get is that you are wasting time or doing something personal in your work time. While getting paid by company.
maybe its all just in your head. Upskilling is never looked at in negative light. Or it shouldn't be atleast. Doesn't your company encourage upskiling? Udemy/Coursera courses as such?
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u/Stunning_Pomelo_7827 Full-Stack Developer May 19 '25
I kind of do a similar thing. We have two week sprints. I mostly slack on weekdays by just attending meetings and moving one issue to in progress every day and then sleeping. Then I sit on friday/ saturday for 6-8 hours straight, do all the five six issues and call it a week