Comment on Pilot project

radiofreebc@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• terminatortwo@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This happened to me.

  I requested four days and laid out a plan on what “success” looked like. We tried it. After six months my boss and I agreed all my metrics had improved, so he put me back in five days because “imagine how productive you’ll be now”, so I quit a couple of months after.

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  • boobookittyfrick@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  • toynbee@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    When I accepted my current job, I did so on the conditions that I’d work 4x10 and fully from home (after training). When I started, they said there had been a misunderstanding about full WFH and that I was allowed to WFH one day a week. (That eventually changed during COVID but no one ever apologized to me for lying to me.)

    Seven years later - last year - they told me that it was “unfair” that I’m the only person who had a special schedule (apparently I was the last person to have it, but I certainly was not the only) and took that away, too.

    I live in a rural area and will not be able to find a comparable job nearby. I’ve been contemplating what to do.

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  • SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Wanna share the plan? I’m still trying to come up with something for my boss.

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    • terminatortwo@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yes! I had an engineering management role in a smallish company, which means that I still had a lot of hands on responsibilities, so not sure how things apply to your role. But a lot looked like this:

      • we set out what we expected would be achieved in six months (major projects or milestones) <- we ran a roadmap that got fuzzy with time so this was more a vibe check than commitments
      • we defined what would be signs that it wasn’t working. Eg. Projects stalling, teams confused about direction, feedback from the team, lowering of certain metrics.
      • we set up checks every two months that included feedback from direct reports and one over.
      • I picked Wednesday. we set out how the calendar was going to change, how handover was going to work for those days and what mechanisms existed to avoid blocking.

      It went great! Especially as a manager knowing you’re not always there helps drive decision making delegation, self directedness, etc.

      In this team I wasn’t the only one that tried it, and we didn’t synchronize days. It had no issue

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    • terminatortwo@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Also depending on where you are, it might be moot. Eg. In Germany they can’t say no unless they have business reason.

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  • RoyaltyInTraining@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I would have prepared my two weeks notice letter in advance and handed it to him right after he said those words.

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    • JcbAzPx@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They would never give you notice if they were firing you. They don’t deserve that courtesy from you.

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    • terminatortwo@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Honestly this caught me off guard because they interim check-ins were good. I wasn’t expecting this conclusion. Otherwise i would!

      Three months notice over here lol

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• Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  On my first job the boss was telling a story about one of his previous jobs, where at one point they had to redo a whole week’s worth of work in one night. They tried hard and managed to do it. So I just added: “it’s in those times one see how slow they usually work”

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  • untorquer@quokk.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    redo

    Or rather we see just how much labor original work is compared to replication.

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