This question is a good example of how companies make decisions to reach their goals, not to make individual employees happy. If your employer could reach their goals but make you miserable, they’d take that trade off in a heartbeat.
If you hate hack days that much, interview and find someplace to work that doesn’t do them. Or help your company “just fix” their normal planning process. Or take PTO on hack days.
You’ve got plenty of options. The idea that the company has to change to make you happy is the wrong way of looking at it.
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This question is a good example of how companies make decisions to reach their goals, not to make individual employees happy. If your employer could reach their goals but make you miserable, they’d take that trade off in a heartbeat.
If you hate hack days that much, interview and find someplace to work that doesn’t do them. Or help your company “just fix” their normal planning process. Or take PTO on hack days.
You’ve got plenty of options. The idea that the company has to change to make you happy is the wrong way of looking at it.