Pls halp me exploit my coders
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Interesting question on Quora:
How do you make programmers work 60-80 hours per week?
Programmers in our startup usually put 8 hours and go home. I keep reading stories about 80+ hour weeks. How do you make them work longer hours? Do we have to pay overtime? We gave few of them some equity, but it doesn't seem to work.
A lot of reasonable - too reasonable - answers in the usual Quora style. You need to scroll way down to get the proper response.
Hire inexperienced programmers who still buy into the romance of startups and don't know any better. This is a good way to ensure that you will get a really shitty product.
Or, if you were going to throw your money away anyway, just give it to me.
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Ah sarcasm, the gift that keeps on giving.
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How do you
make programmers work 60-80 hours per weekreinvent slavery by the back door?
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Put it in their contract that the normal working week is 60-80 hours. Then sit back and watch the applications
floodtrickle incompletely dry up
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Is that a homosexual euphemism?
I guess it depends on whether you give or receive, and whether you're dominant or submissive
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Girl, are you an anti abolitionist? Because I'm a slave to dat ass
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All those answers about "motivating your workers" and whatnot.
I'm no manager but I think the way to get your employees to work 12 hours every day (if you want that for some reason) is very simple: you pay them a metric buttload of money in exchange for that.
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Yeah, I need to make a few changes before issuing a pull request ;)
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I need to make a few changes before issuing a pull request
Pull request denied regardless; I'm spoken forNever in the history of humanity (and erinacity and vulpinity) has source control sounded so dirty
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Racepro is a purple dinosaur, and a guy. Switch your pitch and you'll hit.
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They're roleplaying as lesbians now.
roleplaying?
well yes, but not with @RaceProUK. I yam who I yam.
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That's OK, you can be a lesbian and a purple dinosaur guy, it's not mutually exclusive.
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Never in the history of humanity (and erinacity and vulpinity) has source control sounded so dirty
I don't understand what's dirty. He only wants to fork your arse.
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roleplaying
Nope; never done roleplaying in my life
@Matches said:purple dinosaur
One thing my avatar has never been
Unless you're talking about that dragon-girl, that is.
@Keith said:He only wants to fork your arse.
There's only one name on my arse's ACL, and it's not his…
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i wondered how long till you noticed that.
answer about thirty minutes. :-D
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I may not notice things immediately, but when it appears over every post, inevitably, I will see the change
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very simple: you pay them a metric buttload of money in exchange for that.
The fact that the employees currently have equity yet are going home after 40 tells me that the employees feel that the company isn't building something that will make them millionaires. They're ignoring the equity because they feel it has little value.So, the even simpler answer is that only the guy who started the business thinks this is going to be big. He has to either find people that share his passion or change his vision. If he can't find anyone that shares his passion, then he is most likely wrong and the business is never going to get huge.
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There's only one name on my arse's ACL, and it's not his…
git push --force
OK, I think that joke is now definitely in the "too far" pile. Thanks for playing, everyone
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OK, fine. If you're going to start threatening I'll keep away from your girlfriend
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OK, fine. If you're going to start threatening I'll keep away from your girlfriend
Have you considered a three-way merge?
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I'm no manager but I think the way to get your employees to work 12 hours every day (if you want that for some reason) is very simple: you pay them a metric buttload of money in exchange for that.
Or you have a product that your employees are personally invested (mentally not monetarily) in seeing succeed. Random crappy startup with a dick manager looking to exploit employees... pretty sure his product is shit that the employees don't care about.
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OK, fine. If you're going to start threatening I'll keep away from your girlfriend
You should be thanking her: she's saved you from the business end of my hammer
@Keith said:Have you considered a three-way merge?
Not with @Jaloopa
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OK, fine. If you're going to start threatening I'll keep away from your girlfriend
At this stage, I guess a clone is your only way forward, should you persist.
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Surely you can't be accusing a guy that went online to ask "How do you make them work longer hours? Do we have to pay overtime?" of being a clueless idiot. He's just misunderstood by everyone.
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There's obviously a conflict here, and @RaceProUK is unwilling to commit
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and @RaceProUK is unwilling to commit
i noticed. i even offered a chunk of three dimensional carbon matrix embedded in a toroidal extrusion of gold alloy and still no commit.
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I think he checked out on the relationship a long time ago.
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offered a chunk of three dimensional carbon matrix embedded in a toroidal extrusion of gold alloy
sounds like an indecent proposal
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Oh $DEITY, the puns! It's time for me to pull out of this thread and hit my stash of alcohol, this is getting to be a bit too much.
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At this stage, I guess a clone is your only way forward, should you persist.
*disables anonymous read access*
@Jaloopa said:@RaceProUK is unwilling to commit to @Jaloopa
FTFY
@accalia said:i even offered a chunk of three dimensional carbon matrix embedded in a toroidal extrusion of gold alloy and still no commit.
I… didn't… realise…$> git commit -m 'Yes!'
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There's obviously a conflict here, and @RaceProUK is unwilling to commit
So,
git stash
is a bit like a one-night stand?
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Sweet merciful Chaos…
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Surely you can't be accusing a guy that went online to ask "How do you make them work longer hours? Do we have to pay overtime?" of being a clueless idiot. He's just misunderstood by everyone.
No, not at all. They all understand him very well. He really wants slaves, but finds that there are inconvenient obstacles to that, like the laws all over the place that prohibit slavery, so he is trying the next best thing.(And in all this we are ignoring the well-studied issue that no matter how many hours (beyond 8) people are in the office, they don't do more than about 8 hours of actual work.)
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I think he checked out on the relationship a long time ago.
Who are you talking about?
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Who are you talking about?
I think they were talking about @accalia and @RaceProUK but I'm not super sure, and it was kind of irrelevant to the pun at hand.
In other words, whoooooooooooooosh?
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I think they were talking about @accalia and @RaceProUK but I'm not super sure, and it was kind of irrelevant to the pun at hand.
Yes, they were talking about @accalia and @RaceProUK. But both are female, so the pronoun "he" doesn't make sense, hence my confusion.
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But both are female, so the pronoun "he" doesn't make sense, hence my confusion.
gender ambiguity is a thing when all you can see it the masks that we wear.
-spoken to the tune of "Mad world" by Gary Jules-
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But both are female, so the pronoun "he" doesn't make sense, hence my confusion.
they are both decidedly not, sort of?
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gender ambiguity is a think when all you can see it the masks that we wear.
-spoken to the tune of "Mad world" by Gary Jules-
it's hard to sing that with the tpyo in there
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gender ambiguity is a think when all you can see it the masks that we wear.
I know, especially since it wasn't all that long ago that @RaceProUK was preferring to be thought of as male. But I thought I'd try and keep a bit of pedantry in play.
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they are both decidedly not, sort of?
You're thinking of sex when I'm speaking of gender. Tsk, tsk.
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it's hard to sing that with the tpyo in there
hmm... true. fixed.
also i spoke it, not sang it. :-P
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@RaceProUK was preferring to be thought of as male
If it wasn't for @accalia...[/persona]
In all seriousness, it's oddly liberating. And good fun
[persona]