On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 08:12:34AM +0530, Sruthi Krishnan wrote: > > > > 2. Culture and such. Depends on the environment in your company or > > work place. Sometimes you need support from others to finish tasks > > asap. Any laxness on others part (for eg: late reviews, late > > discussions etc) makes it only tougher for you etc. > > Recently, was talking to someone about my experiences managing a team > in an IT firm. The established culture was to come at around 11 and > then work late, till past midnight. I showed up at 8.30 am, cajoled,
That would be starting work early. A *lot* of IT work involves working alone, thinking about things. High intensity communication will happen, but most of it can (and should) be on channels which can be ignored. I would have suggested that instead of moving the day up to 0830, you should try pushing it to later. Realise that real work happens after office hours, when most of the day staff has gone away. Instead of making the entire team adjust to you, you adjust to what the team needs. I may be an exception in being an owl, but the single biggest source of stress for me is showing up to work at 9 am. My social life is constrained by the sheer physical need to sleep (Friday night to Sunday evening is reserved for catching up on the sleep I lose out on during the work week). Any socialising I can do will has to be outside those hours. What's suffering? Technical reading, photography, socialising, ... I am just too tired after the workday to indulge in anything involving significant thought, simply because I don't get enough sleep. 40 hour weeks? Well, I work 40 hours, but the wrong 40. Devdas Bhagat
