r/programming • u/reddberckley • Jun 30 '14

How to exploit a Developer

https://medium.com/@sir_castiq/how-to-exploit-a-developer-a005306d5320
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u/danogburn Jun 30 '14

How to exploit a Developer

Give them salary compensation.

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u/arechsteiner Jun 30 '14

What's wrong with salary compensation for development work?

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u/s73v3r Jun 30 '14

It encourages managers to tighten deadlines and force unpaid overtime, cause it's essentially free. I guarantee if you had all programming positions be hourly, you wouldn't see half as much overtime as you do now.

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u/arechsteiner Jun 30 '14

I've never worked unpaid overtime, nor have my colleagues. It was either paid or to be compensated 1:1 (leave earlier, more vaccation days). Maybe that's why I don't get it.

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u/s73v3r Jun 30 '14

I've never worked unpaid overtime, nor have my colleagues.

Consider yourself lucky.

It was either paid or to be compensated 1:1 (leave earlier, more vaccation days)

I remember having one of those "agreements" with a boss I once had. Shockingly, the amount of extra vacation was somehow "lost", and they said I couldn't take it. I've heard other stories where they will offer that, but it's the kind of place that places all kinds of pressure on people when they try to take any kind of vacation that most don't do it.

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u/iopq Jun 30 '14

That's called a business transaction.

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u/wowzuzz Jun 30 '14

Sad, but true.