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Do Long Work Hours Affect Code Quality?
tooTired asks: "At my company the owner is heavily implying that the development staff needs to start working longer hours and weekends to shorten the time-frames on our current projects. The exact quote is 'These 8 hour days have to stop, we need to be working 15 hours a day and weekends, balls to the wall.' We are heavily under-staffed even with my multiple attempts to show the owner that we need more resources. My general feeling is that long hours is generally a symptom of poor project management, and not something to be sought after. I wanted to ask the Slashdot community their opinions on how working long hours during the week and weekends affects the quality of the code they produce, and the overall success of the project." A large reason why many in this industry find themselves working long hours and weekends is that management makes unreasonable expectations and deadlines. Are there ways of communicating to management that long hours to rush a project to completion is not the way to complete a successful project? Update: 08/30 23:11 GMT by C :Grammatical errors in title, corrected. Sorry about that.
In any case, it's hardly mockworthy.
are you kidding? it's imminently mockworthy. just like every usage of 'then' instead of 'than' (a word whose demise will be at the hands of slashdot 'authors').
Long hours seem to affect spelling.
Long hours effect spelling. You affect knowledge about grammar.
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
I'm sorry, but your rant represents a lot that is wrong with mankind. A passive approach to living that can barely be called living.
Thoreau wrote:
It is remarkable that there is little or nothing to be remembered written on the subject of getting a living; how to make getting a living not merely honest and honorable, but altogether inviting and glorious; for if getting a living is not so, then living is not.
Why must we take this "If you have the talent to work on class projects, then fine. If you don't, then just let it go." Bull shit. Why not just extend that to, "If you have no talent, just kill yourself right now."
I say, instead of just refusing to work 60 hours, go find a job where you'll demand to work 80 hours. Live life for god sakes.
Do not ever justify just working 40 hours a week because other things are important. If they are so important, then why are you working those 40 hours to begin with? Are your material possessions truely that necessary?
Please, don't preach passivism. It's morally revolting.
int func(int a);
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ArsDigita, ah yes, wasn't that a great success story :)
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