It's kinda weird watching team members finish two tickets per week when you know they could finish two per day. I know I should probably relax like them but it feels too much like cheating (and let's be honest, it is).
i agree its gross, but its the reality we live in. Assuming you're being payed the same salary range as someone who is 1/5 as effective as you, why should you work harder than them? you're not compensated for your extra energy put in (unless its your own startup etc, or you have a large equity %) so theres no reason to do more than you're asked. beautiful thing about a salary job is you clock in, do whats asked of you, then do your own stuff on the side.
You're stuck in an hourly mindset. If you pay someone to build a house, and they complete the house, they're done. They get paid. Whether they build it in 1 day or 200 days, the price is the same.
Getting paid for time is a trick that you need to surpass. Get paid for what you produce. That is the primary difference between businesses and individuals: the non-correlation of time and revenue for a business versus an individual.
It's not just me that is stuck in an hourly mindset, it's every company offering developer jobs ever. In my contract it's not defined how much I have to get done, only how many hours I have to work per week. Time worked is tracked, work done not really.
yeah unless a company is run 'differently' (see https://twitter.com/tobi/status/1210242188870930433 for example)
in terms of culture, no one is going to come out and say don't work for the full 7-8 hours a day.
