> In all honesty, tech people in EE show up to the office at 11 and take a legit one hour plus lunch break to eat proper food at the restaurant together.
Ah yes, the "work hard and the boss will notice" meme.
I have zero incentive to work hard.
1. My salary is mostly tied to the market as a whole and particular company's performance, personal performance is the smallest bit of the equation.
2. Changing a variable from true to false on the personal request of someone very important will give me far more visibility than spending nights doing some work that only one other person is vaguely aware of, even if that work is super important. And visibility means chances for promotion.
3. Most companies are inherently undemocratic and employees have no input on decision making, therefore why would they care.
4. Most companies have proven that they're not afraid of screwing over their employees given the opportunity, so why wouldn't it work the other way around too.
5. In most cases, the reward for completing work early is more work. The punishment for being lazy is having free time.
I'm sorry but that's the corporate reality. I'd love to be a part of a team that works hard together to achieve great things, but that's not how the world works.
Being able to come to the office three hours late and leave two hours early without anyone complaining loud enough to get me fired is a much bigger job perk than Pizza Fridays.
Ah yes, the "work hard and the boss will notice" meme.
I have zero incentive to work hard.
1. My salary is mostly tied to the market as a whole and particular company's performance, personal performance is the smallest bit of the equation.
2. Changing a variable from true to false on the personal request of someone very important will give me far more visibility than spending nights doing some work that only one other person is vaguely aware of, even if that work is super important. And visibility means chances for promotion.
3. Most companies are inherently undemocratic and employees have no input on decision making, therefore why would they care.
4. Most companies have proven that they're not afraid of screwing over their employees given the opportunity, so why wouldn't it work the other way around too.
5. In most cases, the reward for completing work early is more work. The punishment for being lazy is having free time.
I'm sorry but that's the corporate reality. I'd love to be a part of a team that works hard together to achieve great things, but that's not how the world works.
Being able to come to the office three hours late and leave two hours early without anyone complaining loud enough to get me fired is a much bigger job perk than Pizza Fridays.