@anderseknert So I worked hard, like a mad man, basically...

@anderseknert So I worked hard, like a mad man, basically living in the office of the customer for 3 days, I think I had on average 3 hours sleeptime per day in these 3 days, but after 3 days I had an initial alpha release, that could be used to avoid the IP blocks.

I explicitly let the customer know, a) that the release had some medium severity errors (like leaking file descriptors, and other tiny edge cases)
b) that the initial burst of development speed was unsustainable

Like 21 Jun 2023 at 17:09 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mastodon.social

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Andreas K

@anderseknert end result: after 10 days my contract was terminated because I was incapable to fix all the bugs in the “after-midnight-written” code of mine.

(the only funny side note is, as the bug fixing speed dropped even further after I left the customer, the project manager got fired too for firing me, ah, the joys of industry gossip.)

So kids: keep your output consistent, there are generally NO business procedures to reward substantially an excellent worker.

21 Jun 2023 at 17:12 | Open on mastodon.social

Andreas K

@anderseknert Sorry for the typo in the last paragraph, but it should be clear.

Businesses in general do not reward excellent workers, nor do they have in general business processes to do so.

At best, you can expect that bad workers might be let go.

And yes, the reality is, if you are not in a strongly unionized place, expect real wage losses if you stay for longer in a job, even if you are a great employee.

21 Jun 2023 at 18:37 | Open on mastodon.social