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>I’ve just been on a bit of a summer break. Did a bit of travel locally. Visited Hvalfjörður. Walked a lot. I know from experience that if I don’t take a summer break, the winter becomes more of a slog and my thoughts become groggier. Often, as soon as you rest, your mind starts to “helpfully” come up with ideas to help fill your time. One of the invasive thoughts that kept prodding my brain during my break was about modern management theory and how modelling various “AI” tools using those approaches and practices might play out.

Archive: https://archive.today/cmPgc From the post: >>I’ve just been on a bit of a summer break. Did a bit of travel locally. Visited Hvalfjörður. Walked a lot. I know from experience that if I don’t take a summer break, the winter becomes more of a slog and my thoughts become groggier. Often, as soon as you rest, your mind starts to “helpfully” come up with ideas to help fill your time. One of the invasive thoughts that kept prodding my brain during my break was about modern management theory and how modelling various “AI” tools using those approaches and practices might play out.

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I call them ass-in-chair managers. They don't think you are working unless they can physically see you in a chair typing away while they come to interrupt you to "check in" on what you are doing. I hate those people so much.

Just look at work output, deadlines, etc. If I am meeting expectations why does it matter when/how I work? Sometimes I can't sleep so I get some extra work in late at night. Sometimes I wake up really early so I get to work early and knock off early for the day when I am done. Sometimes I don't feel well so I take part of a day off but put in extra hours later when I feel better or on other days to meet my hours.

The work gets done and I don't have to burn 2 hours a day commuting, burning fuel, putting damage on my car, taking extra time off work for errands / Dr. appointments, etc... The freedom is worth it. As long as you are available for meetings when needed and get your work done I see no problems with this. But, a ass-in-chair manager will.

I know a guy that had a manger (during the start of lockdowns) that required everyone on the team to be in a day-long teams meeting ON WEBCAM the entire time even if no one was talking just so he knew you were sitting at your computer "working". What a piece of shit. I would have just recorded a loop and fed it back into the system.

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