> realize that work getting done is what counts, not the exact time your butt hits your seat.
In factory work, being on time matters. Because you're taking a widget from the person to your left, adding value by performing some operation on it, and passing it to the person on your right. If you're not there, and there isn't someone who can fill-in, then the assembly line stops and the firm ships no widgets.
Fair enough, but honestly I think this kind of boring work is on its way out. For now it's shipped to developing countries, but eventually I think this will be 100% robot work. So maybe not completely obsolete globally, but on its way and certainly obsolete for the jobs that most HNers think about.
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> realize that work getting done is what counts, not the exact time your butt hits your seat.
In factory work, being on time matters. Because you're taking a widget from the person to your left, adding value by performing some operation on it, and passing it to the person on your right. If you're not there, and there isn't someone who can fill-in, then the assembly line stops and the firm ships no widgets.
Be late often enough, and you get fired.
I'm very glad that software development work isn't like that, btw. I am not cut-out for Taylorism. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Principles_of_Scientific_Ma...
Fair enough, but honestly I think this kind of boring work is on its way out. For now it's shipped to developing countries, but eventually I think this will be 100% robot work. So maybe not completely obsolete globally, but on its way and certainly obsolete for the jobs that most HNers think about.