We made an Android game whack a mole. I prepared it so far that she only had to make drawing routines and click handling. I always stopped the session soon, as it requires lot of capasity from the Child and is tiring.
"This was an incredibly dumb move, as employees will become “quiet quitters” and lose morale."
Suppose you need to cut employment costs. Is this always better than firing staff?
- For employees: you share the burden instead of some facing hard options (firing) so if you are a team player, this is the choice for you. Those who have options in the market, can still leave for greener pastures; if this was the deciding factor, perhaps they were not too committed on the job anyway? If your unit was on the brink of being profitable (such as being few percent on the negative)), it was just brought to the profitable side, and it might be that now the entire unit can keep their jobs.
- For the company: you still have the option for downsizing, and you just bought time to plan it more thoroughly.
MBAs and bean counters ran this company into the ground in the first place. I’m sure the chain of decisions makes perfect sense given circumstances, but there was no vision to actually do anything seriously other than keep printing money. Lo and behold risk happens slowly then all at once.
I’m sure that’s the MBA type rationalizing going on Intel.
Without the second part where the dividends have not been cut and the company would otherwise be making sound business decision it would also be understandable.
How about talking it out with one of the managers. Someone you think you can talk to. Talking can immediately relieve the situation, at least make you feel better that you got it shared.
If you think you might be facing layoffs, Talks might even have a goal for you like spending some of the worktime on relevant technologies in other teams.
I do not believe in 'how to do the bare minimum', it's often big part of mental health to be able to contribute.
Thanks for the advice. I dont think it will be of any help here. Because my guess is that my manager himself is being managed out. I did think of talking to a few other people in the leadership position. But none of them are transparent.
Legion gaming laptops (and I guess all similar) are fast. If they can run games, they can run compiler. At least this is an issue for me, compiling server on my own laptop takes time if there's not enough power.
Plans are not for reading but for writing. When you write stuff down you think about it = you plan. For others it should be enough that they know you made a plan. Unless they think they can deduce if it's a good one by reading it.
In my personal opinion (and I recognise that this is a controversial view on Hacker News) Apple should be entitled to the same thing Epic Games asks for—which is the right to decide how much their intellectual property is worth when used by other developers to build commercial products.
I think the issue is that once you become a monopoly (as Apple's store is: users choose--for any number of reasons where this is frankly likely only one small one where they might be as pissed off as anyone else--between two stores that also-frankly have similar terms anyway, meaning they don't really have a choice anyway, but then developers can't choose: they are held hostage to access that market), you lose some of the "rights" you have as there is no way to compete on terms. If Apple were to separately say "you can either build on UIKit and Metal, in which case we take 30% of your revenue... or you could use HTML and OpenGL, in which case, well, good luck?" then I think a lot of developers would avoid Apple's frameworks... and if they could explain why to the user--that every time you buy a movie from us you are spending an additional $1 for the UI framework Apple is providing--they would agree wholeheartedly, as that shit adds up fast.
This is an essential part of software design today in General. If a part of your system takes time to develope, it should be an instinctive signal to look an alternative. When all of your time is spent on creating value for the customer instead of tweaking technology, you are on the right path. If you find yourself tweaking, you need to stop and look for alternative approach. This does not mean hoarding more tools as I have seen many do, because tools have a maintenance cost.
This might seem funny at first, but there are some advantages: while you stare at the screen, you also move at the same time, which I feel is important for health. The battery runs after an hour or so, and you have to put the device away. At this point I usually feel the need to do something again, but I'm no longer 'after work tired', and can do something productive like go jogging or do house chores.
The experiment is still going on, I feel it is promising.
