Also not care to manage your time better, look out for risks, improvements, etc. Or just staring at the screen with your mind blank (I have been there). Or be more inventive about avoiding work. It just causes them to work longer but slower. The reality is that banning everything else than work is not causing people to do more work. In a low trust environment management thinks they can improve productivity by banning activities that have nothing to do with work. We are all adults and we understand different people work differently but most people are unable to keep focus uninterrupted for 8h straight, day after day. You are given a challenge and you figure your way to deliver results. In high trust environment nobody cares what you are doing - you are trusted to manage your time to produce results best you can. I could see how embedded work would be fun in this regard. It's fun working within contraints like RAM, hardware specs. I truly enjoy getting things done with minimal resources. I may ask for a Raspberry Pi to prototype something or a slice of a VM for Ubuntu Server.
Lesure suit larry software#
I have rarely asked for a software license. Give me a task, a deadline, a budget, and get out of the way. No meticulous, nasty meetings where everyone is playing one-upmanship, or buzzword bingo with gems like "synergistic" or using stupid phrases like "we tuned x and boom goes the dynamite", no talk of cross-functional team spearheading, no sharing an office with people who won't stop farting despite the nasty looks and obvious can of Glade. There are no laborious crunch days trying to get something out the door. What more could I ask for? Sure, the pay is lower.
Lesure suit larry code#
If I think I can build or code something better than what we have, I'm given the green light to do a working prototype. I get to work on cool projects that I often come up with.
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I now focus on non-profits and I couldn't be happier. I swore then I'd never work for another massive IT company and left after 6 months.
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There was a sense of fear in the air that took a month or two to sense. They almost seemed unable to deviate from the script. These people seemed so stodgy, so incapable of having a bit of fun. By week three I knew I had made a mistake. I fought and got through three interviews. I thought it would be so fun to work there. I worked for Microsoft about 10 years back.