Employee Turnover

This is an interesting take on turnover

The Ninja question is: Where are you on the curve?

Personally, I'm starting to feel way out on the right....

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Working Hard, or Hardly Worth It?

Heroics again.

IRL, I'm fighting a bundle of management-set schedules that have no relation to reality. However, I am remaining steadfast in my determination to not work overtime. Since I was not consulted as to effort when these deadlines were set, I hold that I am not responsible for the work.

Now, many will take the stance that I am being unprofessional by not working my best towards this deadline. I point to the studies that show that prolonged excess working hours lead to shoddy work. Anecdotal evidence like this also support the stance.

So when I am dragged into an unrealistic schedule, I hold to regular work hours.

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Workaholics, or Drama Queens?

One job back, I worked for a small company that instituted an "Employee of the Month" award to help boost morale. The only 2-time winner during the existence of this award was a nice guy, and a good programmer, but he won the award for being at the office long hours and fixing problems. But those problems were ones that should have been found before they got that far. This company was rewarding heroics instead of quality. It's a common problem for software companies - the people who get rewarded are those being heroes, while those that do things right the first time get no recognition. And that's just wrong, and this explains, in one of the links.

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