[Sorreah]

My last job was exactly that. I was dropped in as an almost-30 year old, working with young 20 year olds still in school.

I was fired a few months later, with the main reason being that I usually left the office 9 or 10 hours after coming in and only occasionally worked the 12+ hour days that the rest did.

With a small codebase and self contained projects, I can't really say quality suffered. Only the employees.

[coldtea]

>I was fired a few months later, with the main reason being that I usually left the office 9 or 10 hours after coming in and only occasionally worked the 12+ hour days that the rest did.

Such practices are illegal (or at least frowned upon) in most of the civilized world.

[rhapsodic]

> Such practices are illegal (or at least frowned upon) in most of the civilized world.

It's called "employment-at-will", and it's not that uncommon.