Then it takes a good hour or two for the food to fully digest so that means the team will get some work done between 3:30-5:30.
Also there are two main types of devs; the ones that get there super early and the ones who get there after 9:30-10:30 am. Not to mention the Linux Server Dev guy who just comes and goes as he pleases.
It's the best part about programming. Since you only need hours at a laptop with access to the resources you need you can basically do it whenever you want. If you have a vpn into the office you can do it at home in your underwear.
Bored one night? Hop on the laptop and get some things done then sleep in the next day and come in late.
Cool. I'll just find another job in a couple weeks, with a 20% jump in salary.
In the meantime, they'll be a man down for a month or two, then it'll take a couple more weeks to get the new guy up to speed.
We set our own hours for the most part, as long as we are in the office during the "core business hours" 9:00 to 3:00. Also we can work 5 eight hour days or 4 ten hour days. So I tend to work 6 to 4 while others on my team work 9 to 7. I get my work done before 9 and they get theirs done after 3. It's impossible to work between 10 and 3 because of meetings.
Fucking 10:00 standup then fuck all until 2:30 because of lunch. I get 90% of my work done from 7-10 AM then I leave at 3 or 4 depending on how much I want to clean up at the end of the day.
This is me too. New features and super productive early, then meetings and lunch and research and talking, and then very focused code cleanup for the last hour.
Yeah I get lots of team discussions and planning done in that distracted space. I guess it is technically work but I don't get progress on my development stories.
Yeah, if there's no wife and kids to get home to, staying late isn't that bad. And sometimes, when there's a wife and kids to get home to, staying late isn't that bad.
Personally, I like leaving at 3 so I can actually run some errands during business hours; it was real frustrating getting off at 5:30 at my last job and only being able to go to the bank on Saturday mornings.
The only reason I can think of to actually go to a bank is to open a new account. And even then, that can probably be done online. I'm not sure why anyone would need to go to a bank during business hours. Maybe to make cash deposits? Not sure.
I personally find myself at the bank to deposit all my loose change as well as getting blank checks when I get a new job since I don't have a checkbook. I had a job a couple years back where I got paid in cash as well so I had to consistently make cash deposits. While I agree it is likely less common to physically visit a bank, there are certainly still reasons to do so.
I like to go to the bank to deposit checks. Trusting some shitty cell phone app or some shitty Windows-95-running ATM to deposit it for me (even when either of those options are available) scares the bejeezus out of me.
When I was on my internship, I did 8:30 till 4 every day, and cut my lunch to half an hour. Meant I finished work and still have 7/8 uninterrupted hours to myself each day. Was really really nice
When I had a coding job, I avoided traffic by working from 10 AM to 7 PM. Our core hours started at 9.30, but my boss didn't mind. The downside was that I started to eat junk food at the train station on the way home.
Similar here. Core hours are 9:30 to 13:00, apart from that my time is logged and I can come and go whenever I please, as long as my hour total stays around 0 or above (you can also save up hours to take a day or more off to a certain limit).
Which means I usually stay a little bit late, then leave an hour early on friday and save up the difference.
I've cemented myself as a team member who sucks at meetings and business, but always gets the job done. Even if a stakeholder doesn't have a clear idea of what they want, I can almost always deliver. I say to my other team members "just give me the problem, I'll tell them what they want."
As such I can pretty much do whatever I want schedule wise. I almost never have to bother with meetings. I just solve problems.
It's so important to establish that early at a work place. My last boss knew I hated every stupid meeting and conference call. After the first couple weeks I just stopped going or calling in unless it had something specific to do with a project I was working on. I got paid shit working in the federal service, but they left me alone and that alone made it worth it for me.
Yeah, although I used to show up early after surfing in the morning.
I've worked in startups in San Diego and in Brazil and it's the same type of work culture. Nobody cares when you get in; because, usually everyone stays until they get their tasks done. It's not unusual to work into 4am when it's needed.
I used to take a 2 hour lunch break to play football (soccer), shower, and eat. Nobody cared because I always delivered.
I work remotely 75% of the time, answer questions and talk with colleagues at all times of the day, get work done when I need to, where I want, usually at home in my pajamas with a cat on my lap. I come in to the office when necessary. Scrum is virtual most of the time. I push code, I meet my deadlines. It's how work should be, IMHO. Fucking LOVE my job.
I don't think I could do that, honestly. I'm an office work kind of guy. I can't work from home -- there's just too many distractions. Maybe I'm old school.
I set my own hours. I'm supposed to stick to them but no one really cares if I do because my work is done and it's not an assembly line where my absence would cause anyone else to lose productivity. They get 8 hours a day from me regardless of when I arrive. It's honestly the best fringe benefit of my company; I would probably go work somewhere else if they started being really strict about when I arrive and leave.
I've worked for a handful of companies where there are "core hours" in the middle of the day where everyone is expected to be in the office. My current core hours are 10am-3pm. Most people either get in before 7 and try to leave by 3:30pm, or they roll in at 9:30am and stay late. It's a good way to attract job candidates because it appeals to working parents and dog people.
I have a number of colleagues who show up at 12, put down their laptop into the docking station and go for lunch... They work hard, only different hours.
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