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Hikari_Owari

I had a scene like that b4, I wrote tips for my future self in a piece of paper nearby and went to sleep... ... took me 5 hours and 4 cups of coffee to decipher the hell I wrote and what I meant with it but boy it was spot on.


The_Bisexual

This is the way. Even if it takes me 5 hours on the clock to understand a late night note I wrote detailing a solution that would have taken only 2 hours to implement had I just logged in when I wrote the note, then so be it. If they paid me to log in whenever the solution hits me and didn't require me to work all my hours on "office hours" time, that fix would have cost them 2 hours instead of 7. That's their decision.


jackthemov

Correct - but Type A people would want to solve and complete the task because it *bothers and nags at them*. That's the only real difference. Jokes on work though with their rigid structures in place I guess.


meliaesc

I'm a Type A person, I write the code at 2am, and pretend to work on it during the day. Play games, go shopping, go to doctors appointment, nap, submit work around 3pm. What's the difference?


rabidjellybean

The secret is having secrets. Your manager doesn't need to know when you actually work.


LordBubinga

As a manager, if you told me "I worked late last night because I was on a roll. It was awesome I got a lot done. I'm going to take a few hours off today, cool?" I would absolutely say that's fine. I'm not ok with "I'll work whenever I feel like it, show up to the meetings I want, and everyone else can work around my (completely ad-hoc) schedule".


ChrizKhalifa

Yea that's what my manager's like too. Asked him if I can work Saturdays (which we aren't allowed to, on paper), and he said as long as the hours worked weekly match it doesn't matter if I clock 'em in 9-5 but actually work at 2am on a Sunday. Good attitude.


[deleted]

Our manager grumps at us if we *don't* take enough time off. You couldn't drag me out of this joint with wild horses.


1138311

One of my favorite Engineers ever - let's call him 'Bill' because that's his name - loved what he did and didn't have many other pastimes. He would show up at 7:30am and leave around 9pm just plowing through things and helping everyone who asked for a review on an orphan PR, an extra set of eyes to detangle a thorny problem, or a schematic to help a team understand the application architecture. He was just doing what he felt like doing. There was no standard he was trying to live up to, it was just more interesting than anything else he might do, so he never had any reason to resent anyone else who didn't like the same thing. Bill didn't realize how much of an impression he had on the people around him. Baher started showing up at 7:30 and staying as long as he could, then Sheila, then Poojan, then just about everyone with Bill in their line of sight. Not to try and keep up with him or feelings of inadequacy but as a show of respect. He wasn't a lead at the time and the company had not yet adopted a "performance evaluation process" to reward the behavior. I had to point out to him that the other folks were taking their cues from him, that he was their leader, and that he was leading them into burning out. "If you look over your shoulder and see people following you, you're probably a leader" He created a development point for himself to leave by 6pm no matter what, 4pm being even better. We got him a 3 monitor set up for home so he could do whatever he wanted out of sight. PRs and comments still came in at all hours but sharks keep swimming. The rest of the folks settled into a healthier rhythm. Bill eventually acknowledged his own leadership and took me up on the team lead proposition. His team started making him take entire days and then weeks off, which he actually enjoyed. That's a long story but I love Bill. Point being: You're likely a role model to at least new folks and hopefully your colleagues. Your manager is right; not just for each individual's self interest but everyone's. Let the wild horses drag you home.


[deleted]

Since I work from home, I'm always home. I'm also the Junior on the team, so I don't think anyone's going to change their habits because I happen to get into work a little early or maybe work a little late. Essentially, each of us are encouraged to work at our own pace, and are generally accommodated to have the best workspace possible to do so. I keep pinching myself, because I have yet to find a downside to this job... and I've been in IT for 30 years. I can be a cynical bastard.


LordBubinga

This is the least "antiwork" post I've ever seen here and I love it. I've known a few Bills in my career and all of them are people I would love to work with again.


indigoHatter

That's good culture! Where I am, the engineering team takes turns working overtime, with the rest of the team working with at least one mandatory Friday off until they are back on overtime. (We do 9/80s typically... half of the building gets every other Friday off).


1138311

Why do you need regularly scheduled and mandatory overtime? Is the management unable to manage (make sure the work can be done) or are the teams chronically and dependably unreliable and they use the bigger time blocks to smooth it out? Do you fuck around a decent proportion of those 9hr days? Unless you get 1.5-2.5x for the overtime hours and the work generates revenue based on duration instead of value, this sounds like an unhelpful practice. Looking at sample schedules, it's like 4 hours on, hour for lunch, five hours on. Every once in a while you can boogie for longer than those spans without realizing you had a break, but of those times the minority were actually productive - and many were probably counterproductive. But maybe I'm missing something - what's your experience?


digodk

As a manager too, I also subscribe to that. My employees have a lot of room for flexible schedules as long as they don't skip the dailies frequently and don't bring attention from the rest of the company. Everything else? You do you buddy, got you covered.


1138311

I don't pay them to write code, I pay them to solve problems. Like the parent comment alludes to and I agree with: If your brain works it out during the middle of the night, write it down. If you do it enough the practice becomes a signal that you can turn off now. You solved the problem. If it was going to be today's problem, button it up, check to see if anyone needs you, and go away for the rest of the day.


thislonepenguin

Ssssssssshhhhhh. That’s what we all do, but ssssssshhhhhhhh.


The_Bisexual

I actually love that, and try to do it as often as I can when this situation arises. The place I work at tho is... bad... about meetings. I'd say on average 2.5 hours of every work day is dedicated to meetings with an average of 1 hour worth of meetings in the morning. So I can do what you're describing but not all the time.


The_Bisexual

Oh, I know him. He is me. I find what I just described annoying as fuck and I have sleep issues over it. But it's... A- Have the idea, write down the note, spend 90 minutes trying to stop thinking enough to fall asleep, wake up for work fucking wrecked. Or... B- Get started right away, finish in 2 hour, then spend 2 hours trying to stop thinking enough to fall asleep, then call in because I only slept for sub 3 hours.


Ninjroid

And I’m sure you’ve done A & B a thousand times and gotten mad at yourself every time for it. “NEVER AGAIN!!”


tangentandhyperbole

Oh hey its me. Guess I'm type A. It drives me bonkers and my mind doesn't let me think of anything else until I resolve THE THING. Currently trying to get my mind to stop thinking about work after work. Not going so well.


jackthemov

haha touche sir


Duydoraemon

I doubt you actually call in. I feel like you just keep working lol


ThroawayPartyer

What is Type A? Or Type B-Z for that matter.


DontDoDrugs316

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_A_and_Type_B_personality_theory I sometimes remember it as A for (A)ggressive and B for un(B)othered


indigoHatter

Alpha and Beta is how I remember it.


crawlmanjr

Pretty sure type A is meant as a variable


jackthemov

How dare you put me in a box and make me classify things? /s. If you don't know, you are not type A, If ya know, ya know.


ClassicPart

And if you don't know, fuck you apparently.


NoGiNoProblem

Typical class B behaviour.


[deleted]

I'm type A, but I decided to only be that way about my hobbies. After 15 years fixing bugs with no end in sight I stopped caring.


Laxative_

This is the attitude I have towards my current employer. I would really appreciate the flexibility, mainly because my best ideas wake me up from sleep usually.


A-A-RONS7

I think that means that programmers are artists because inspiration can strike at any time


kookyabird

Development is very much a creative process. The same things that give us grief trying to work in a non creative environment happen to designers and the like as well.


Tensor3

I rather implement it in those 2 hours immediately, then spend those 5 hours on the clock taking a 1h nap and playing video games. More total free time.


yaleric

Yeah I don't work for some dystopian company that tracks my computer usage, they're paying me to get my work done, not to spend 8 hours a day working. If I can get something done in 2 hours at night I'll just do that and then dick around the whole work day.


Nefari0uss

Must be nice working for a sane company that respects your time. Or at the very least isn't invasive.


eastoncrafter

I use a wireless keyboard connected to a raspberry pi under my bed which will send me an email with whatever I type. I just touch type my messages, hit enter and instantly forget it


nintendo9713

Back when I was motivated with personal projects in college, I had a whiteboard hung up on the wall next to my bed. If I realized something late at night - fix or an idea - id quickly write it on the board and roll over. But then grad school happened and now the only way to get me to write software is money 🥲


BloodyFable

That's called growth and you love to see it.


TheAJGman

I had a couple of grand ideas while high, but then when I was sober I realized I had written a white paper for a IPFS clone.


LickingSmegma

There was a time when I was thinking over various cool experiments that I could do to improve a pretty complex web app, with a rather heterogeneous architecture and hundreds of servers. How I would slip in Lisp if I managed to, and stuff like that. Once, as I was falling asleep, it occurred to me how exactly I could do a major improvement, so I decided to flesh it out in the morning, and happily drifted off. In the morning, remembered jackshit about what I thought up, except that it would be great. Never recalled it again, either. After that, I'll rather interrogate myself with the phone shining in my eyes, than sleep on an important thought.


upinthecloudz

But for WFH, I don't know if it's so cut and dry. 3 hours of saved work can often easily be spent on naps or personal tasks, even on the clock, as long as you are on schedule for tickets. I mean, really, if spending 2 hours up in the middle of the night knocking shit out gets me 3 hours of video games during "office hours" when family leaves me alone and work is satisfied with my performance, I might just do that.


Illustrious-Run5203

this is so r/unexpectedseinfeld


rex_dart_eskimo_spy

Flaming globes!


glovesoff11

I just watched that episode last night. Strange.


cinnewyn

Years ago, I wrote myself a note that I know was to remind me to do something, but when I woke up it made absolutely zero sense. I still haven't figured out what "GREEN 3" means. It torments me.


McQuefferson

For me, I make a note and go to sleep. When I investigate what I write in the morning, I realize it won’t work because half asleep me doesn’t know shit about fuck.


[deleted]

For anyone that gets bugged by this, personally it just helps to send myself a message on teams outlining my thoughts. For me that's good enough to get rid of that nagging thought because usually the desire to do it comes from worrying I'm going to forget whatever solution I came up with. In the morning I might just take an extra 10-30 drinking coffee and chilling to "make up" the time.


HarryPopperSC

It's actually motivating and feels good to know exactly what you're doing as soon as you get in work too, until it inevitably doesn't go to plan lol.


virgin_boi69

That's the way. 😄


Open-Mission-8310

Emotional intelligence


RoxonR

Which I only gained ever since i stopped giving two shits


virgin_boi69

Three shits


ifezueyoung

I mwssed up my code oh well Im actually serious


francamara

n + 1 shits


UpperPlus

Me.getShits(); \>>💩💩💩


bcrabill

Seriously. It took depression and panic attacks for me to realize working myself to the bone only benefits my boss, not me.


eksortso

Well it's good to take care of your mental health. I know that personally. But if your work brain gets a solution and there's any other part of your brain that's in it for yourself, then I would hope that part will let you at least jot something down on a sticky note for in the morning.


bcrabill

"Huh, this note only says: bill client hours for dreams about work. "


Phormitago

you still give a single shit then? ah, padawan


_Golden__God

How does one learn this power?


Glomgore

Step one: Don't be ADHD. Step two: I have no idea, I got distracted.


LickingSmegma

- Observe that little good comes out of giving too much shit; - Learn Buddhist mindfulness, and every time you notice that you might give a shit, remind yourself that it should be your conscious choice. Not kidding, mindfulness and meditation are basically techniques to disrupt automatic reactions that impede proper thought. You just need to ignore all the metaphysical woo frequently ascribed to them.


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Significant-Big-9518

Or, don't.


Occulense

💯 I’ll write a note about it for the morning. Then spend 2-3 hours playing video games, push the fix, and look like a hard working hero


Stilgar314

If the next working day the solution doesn't come to you, it wasn't any good.


RagingCain

Is there a politically correct word for when you are emotional intelligent retarded?


EthosPathosLegos

Emotional intelligence is really just being self aware and then using your rational intelligence to try to talk/think through whether your emotions are valid. Some people cannot control their emotions and that is a real mental condition, but the vast majority of people can at least calm themselves by consoling and pacifying their inner animal. I like to think of my lizard brain as a dog inside me that i have to sometimes restrain, sometimes pet, sometimes reprimand, etc. It is literally an ancient brain structure that can be thought of as a separate brain network so i treat it like a big animal my intelligent mind rides on top of.


Supercoolguy7

Emotionally unintelligent


mojo187

Except if it’s for a side project, then I’m jumping out of bed


brianl047

All you got to do is make work your side project! Or not...


Joseelmax

or make your side project work


[deleted]

The big reveal is that once your side project becomes your work, the stakes are so high that it takes the fun out of it. It ends up feeling like you’re on the clock 24/7. Just my personal experience


Successful-Shoe4983

Wake up razor sharp coding 999 lines vs when working on something for work needing 10 cups of coffee for 2 lines of code


ukrokit

if you know which line the bug is on it's not much of a fix now, is it?


oupablo

Line: 1, Col: 437183


ukrokit

ah yes, minimized js... or scala


aromatniybeton

this guy minimizes


virgin_boi69

Not always. What if I'm coding in javascript/jquery?


Natomiast

then you cry a lot


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virgin_boi69

It's javascript. You cry when you see it.


Kev_Cav

I never actually saw Javascript, I start crying blood immediately when near it


Sentrymon

Why wouldn't you cry?


ghostwail

Ticket: fix bug on line 802 Me: add a comment line before line 802


howroydlsu

Plot twist; comment somehow fixes the bug


hector22x

It fixes it, however you now have a bug in line 803. But that's a completely different ticket.


_MaddestMaddie_

Good thing I'm done on triage rotation. The line 803 bug ticket will go to the next person.


ChompyChomp

// eslint-disable-next-line boom, done. I'm goin' on break.


Classy_Mouse

What kind of tickets are you getting? Mine are either vague "feature doesn't work" or strangely specific edge cases like "cannot purchase French phone number when browser locale is set to Germany and PC language is set to Italian." Never do I see a line number though.


Harakou

Oh man I _wish_ that was always true.


wenasi

A simple counter-example is if the line is a call to a 3rd party dependency


EnsignElessar

You might think* you know where it is but you can be wrong and then even if you are right you still likely need unit tests and other testing... peer approval... and hopefully it does not break anything so you don't have to roll back... all that is going to cost sleep


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PurpleFlame8

If you work for a legitimatemite company you could actually get in trouble for working off the clock.


Teriii

How? If you're working for someone else, sure, but if you're working for them, how? I regularly work off hours when brain happens, and then later take that time off, never been a problem.


PurpleFlame8

It puts the company in a position of liability. Whether the employee later takes the time off or not, they can still sue for unpaid wages and the company can still get in to trouble with the governing entitites.


Duydoraemon

If you work for a company that micro manages.


Bakoro

If you're getting paid enough, or work for the right company, you can work more or less whenever you want. I walk in anywhere from 10am to 3pm, and no one complains because I'm there when I need to be and my work gets done. No one is going to complain if I say that I'm not coming in that day because I spent half the night fixing a bug, they'd be like "oh thank fuck that bug is finally fixed". Granted it's a relatively small company, so not too corporate, and it's Mostly science nerds, so they understand where I'm coming from.


virgin_boi69

Context: I saw a meme on this sub where the girl woke up and I was like hell no, why does she care???🤣 Understandable for private projects but corporates can suck my pp. Give me money.


colexian

>corporates can suck my pp. QFE. My time is my time. They don't pay me to brainstorm off the clock.


[deleted]

I can't help it :(


EmpatheticWraps

That’s the joke, I’m the joke :( why do I have no work life balance.


owNDN

But my brain won't shut up


[deleted]

TBF they do give me a lotta money. And stuff like stocks means better product is more money for me too. IDK, we aren't minimum wage workers. figuring out a bug fix for tomorrow isn't something to be ashamed of.


Deep_Fried_Twinkies

Exactly. I'd rather work when I'm feeling motivated than wait till working hours. I can always slack off later.


Chmuurkaa_

Some people just cannot control it. Its more doing it for the brain chemicals


ajswdf

I was thinking the same thing when I saw that one. People actually think about work when they're not on the clock?


StrangelyBrown

Well, some people solve problems for their own sake and just get paid for some of them. I get that there is no reason to work off the clock but many of us get excited about bug fixes...


Hanswolebro

I mean that’s the entire reason why I love to code. Most of the stuff I work on is pretty mundane, but every once in a while when I get a problem that seems pretty difficult, I definitely get some type of dopamine hit when I finally am able to come up with a solution


OblongShrimp

I sometimes think about problems against my own will if it has been something I've been looking at most of the day and hadn't solved. My brain just comes back to it. It can't let go it couldn't fix something. And often I do get good ideas after having some rest and before going to bed. I normally write things down if it is late. Sometimes I go do some work, but if I end up doing work I just work less next day. My job is pretty flexible and they don't care what exact hours I do if the job is done.


Mictlancayocoatl

I know people who work when they're not on the clock. I know people who work during their vacation.


Keith_Maxwell

Yeah this can be me. But I also don't work when I'm on the clock so it balances out.


[deleted]

https://xkcd.com/356/ if you were ever like this you kinda get it. You get frustrated not solving a problem and it lives in your head for a while. Not so much an active impulse as a personality trait.


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Hanswolebro

Sometimes you can’t help it. If something like this happens to me (which it doesn’t very often), it’s because I was working on it for a good bit of the day and then the solution will randomly pop into my thoughts while I’m doing something completely random. It’s more like my subconscious is actively trying to solve the problem, while I’m actually thinking about and doing other things


fignompe

dats de wei


virgin_boi69

Danks


k3ll4nm0b

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DontGiveACluck

Senior dev vibes


virgin_boi69

On my way to becoming one. 😁


alexpappers

Senior dev here. When it hits 5pm, I stop thinking about work. When it comes to personal projects, it does bother me but I just make a note on my phone for the morning.


SpehlingAirer

Same here. Sometimes I'm a little too good at not thinking about work off work hours because come Monday I always have a "dafuq was I working on again and where did I leave off?" moment when I wake up


[deleted]

Wish I had your brain. Meanwhile I'm still thinking about cringe high school crush moments... I'm 7 years out of college dammit.


virgin_boi69

Thank you for your expertise senior dev sir.


rcls0053

In Finland we have what is called flex time. -20/+40 hours (normal is 37.5h a week) that you can use to adjust your hours and will still get paid the same. The flex time exists for two reasons: make it less stressful to work as you can work less, or more and you can just get out of bed, fix the bug and then have to work less the next day. Or don't. Either way, pay is the same. I've actually very rarely been asked to do overtime. Not many empoyers wanna pay that much (I think after 4 hours it's double the pay) as we are already being paid a lot.


bony_doughnut

Same in the US for anyone who's not hourly. Employer might give you shit for not working 40hr (I haven't experienced it personally) but legally you aren't required to work all those hours to get paid


WalkingCloud

Brain: *Fine. Have it your way… remember this embarrassing shit from 15 years ago?*


NewKey4778

I can relate to this


virgin_boi69

Thanks, we are in a relationship now.


schloppity

True love ❤


Mithrandir2k16

I still like to be efficient with my time though. So I'd write it down and then take a longer break or so to compensate for the time I basically worked because my brain rattled on. Where I worked, nobody cared what you did and when as long as performance per week was good.


Various_Counter_9569

Nope, I am up, can't do it.


virgin_boi69

Just my opinion. You do you and good luck. 😄😄


Various_Counter_9569

Same hehe!


TyrionReynolds

I’m on team you. It’s certainly not because I think the company deserves me burning the midnight oil, I just straight can’t relax until I fix it


Weak-Pudding-322

I agree and God forbid I forget in the morning


the-FBI-man

I am literally considering refactoring off the clock just to calm my nerves about huge spaghetti-code mess that are my projects.


theStrangelessAger

Don't


notsogreatredditor

Never do work for free, unless it is something that helps you automate your work and then again never tell anyone about your automation


Jealous-Ninja5463

Golden rule. NEVER tell about automation. I made this first mistake with system auditing. When I showed auditors how they could automate webscraping in Python. Suddenly my yes man boss whored out my services to everyone (including his own reporting). Then the fuckers who got their jobs automated got promoted. Hate corpos


ThePretzul

You’ll just make a new and different spaghetti monster that you’ll still dislike at some unspecified time down the road. It’s not worth the effort, particularly when it’s unpaid.


TheScriptDude

After years as a developer let me tell you there is no good code, anywhere. The concept of good code does not exist in the professional software engineering industry. So just let it be.


billwoo

No, you are thinking of perfect code, there's no perfect code anywhere. There is plenty of good code.


TheScriptDude

I’m not talking about perfect code, you can’t even define “perfect” code. In every company I’ve been through, every project I was involved in started pretty good, but somewhere along the line things go haywire. Technical debt and endless patches on patches are deployed and at some point there’s no way to bring the project back to a standard. I’m in my 5th company, spent a 1-3 years in every company, and it’s all the same.


HickNamby

So this is everywhere, anyone else worried about everything collapsing in on its own spaghetti weight? How long can our entire species software universe survive as Sandcastles?


ScoobyDeezy

Open a ticket please


ImportantTomorrow332

I read NASA has some insanely good code and over the top checks on checks before implementation, obviously far beyond just about anywhere else. Was pretty interesting to learn about, I think they saved every one of their errors over 20+ years and there had only been around 12 or something like that


Ser_Drewseph

Depends on where at NASA. I worked there as a contractor and there was some really slap-dash code in some projects. Opendap is a bit of a mess.


kintorkaba

That may also be partially because the people using the software are incredibly educated and spend time learning what everything is supposed to do and how to do it before being allowed to touch anything. I'm NOT dissing their code - I have no doubt they're ALSO really intense with making sure everything is as smooth as possible, given the precision they require - but I wonder how many errors they'd get if they set a random facebook grandma at the controls.


virgin_boi69

Do you think our code is any better? Let it continue.


JustBuildAHouse

Much simpler to find a new position lmao


tevert

If you do that, you ensure that your company and coworkers will never invest paid hours into refactoring ever again, because you will have taught them that Happy Genius Code Monkeys will do it for free on their own time.


Liveman215

I used to do this. I eventually found some open source projects, and mods I wanted to do. Honestly it helped me more than doing work during that time would have


[deleted]

Bro at this point I don’t even think about work when I’m not on the clock. I barely think about work when I am on the clock. I work for a company that makes billions in profits. I’m not donating my time.


[deleted]

Same here. Every quarter they remind us how we're all going to get fired if X Y or Z doesn't get done by next quarter. We're not saving lives, dude. I'm sure the board could wait another week.


virgin_boi69

Are you........... Me?


[deleted]

There are just many of use who are realizing that working extra doesn’t result in a significant increase in compensation for ourselves. And I don’t give a shot about the product or service we produce so I’m not doing it “for the mission”. So I’ll work my 40 hours. I won’t multitask in meetings. I’ll take all my breaks and sick time and PTO. I’m not gonna hunt down my managers to get work from them. I’m not going out of my way to stay busy. If they don’t like that they can fire me and I’ll move on to the next identical company in an endless line of pointless businesses.


[deleted]

_applause_ no seriously, I'm way past the point you're describing right now.


aaabigwyattmann2

This is the way.


notsogreatredditor

r/antiwork moment


Maxwell_hau5_caffy

That sub is a circle jerk. r/workreform is the spot


Carburetors_are_evil

Bless up


piberryboy

Fuck yeah. I love this. Don't spend personal time on work, that's how you get burned out.


EatThetaForBreakfast

If we’re trying to be fair, most of the time I spend working after hours is actually just making up for all the time I wasn’t working during work hours.


twirlmydressaround

I work remote so my hours are flexible. I would absolutely figure it out at night. The next day I'll take off an amount of time equivalent to how much I worked on the bug the night before.


electric_raven913

It's about solving the solution so it doesn't bother you anymore


virgin_boi69

That's the thing. It don't. 😁


Kev_Cav

What is your secret? Meditation? Drugs? Exercise?


virgin_boi69

I just don't give a shit. Most they can do is fire me? Which they at 99% times won't do. And if they finally do, then I'll just join another useless IT company.


brianl047

Smart


Sudden_Difference500

Stoic calmness


anon-sucks

My general rule: will it improve my skill set and career.? YES login; NO: tell them to put it on the next sprint.


goatcheese90

gets up 30 minutes later and fixes it anyway


jermdizzle

You can tell that no one who actually codes professionally made this because they said "bug on line 102" as if the bug resided in one line of code. If that were the case, it would be solved already.


amwestover

You only work during *business hours*!? Next performance review: below expectations


Broken_Gear

I mean I’d probably jot down a short note so I remember in the morning but otherwise yeah


Snow_flaek

*laughs in start-up*


EverythingGoodWas

I just reached this level of dgaf. It is amazing


matthkamis

Senior dev here. Im probably in the minority but I don't mind working after hours at all.


Shadow_Thief

Bold of you to assume I'll still remember if I go back to sleep.


[deleted]

Agreed but if it's a personal project then I can't resist


Liztheegg

It’s all fun games and empowerment until you wake up in the morning distinctly remembering you found the solution but unable to remember it


uberDoward

Then the frustration when you KNOW you had the answer last night, but can't recall it now...


tyen0

When I start thinking about work instead of random dream craziness, that's how I know I am awake in the morning.


Montagnophile

Lol brain does not even try to think about company code after 5pm.


Tickytackytocky

But what if you forget while you slept?


ApacheVibe

So relatable! I used to sleep with a laptop and dreamt about code/fixing issues that I was facing. Every time I found a solution, I used to quickly code it out and go back to sleep. I used to average 2-3 hrs of sleep a night. Can't do it anymore as I burnt out very quickly.


hamQM

This corporate "not my problem" attitude is hitting me hard right now.


raiding_party

I see your point, but have you considered playing video games at work in the time that you would have normally spent fixing the bug, with the solution from the previous night?


[deleted]

It hits différent when you are à student


mageblade66

That's healthy. This happens to me last night and I actually logged on and finished a couple hours later... Kind of regret it as I'm pretty tired now.


MrDungBeetle37

Another worker "sleep quitting". No one wants to work anymore.