[dwighttk]

I hate the idea of working on weekends...

This guy was only talking about people significantly behind on their projects, for what it is worth.

Of course they can be behind because they are wasting time or because the project requires too many man hours.

[bkor]

> This guy was only talking about people significantly behind on their projects, for what it is worth.

What difference does that make? If people are behind they're behind. There should be a discussion, not an "work overtime" response. I want to think I'm valued and not just blamed if things aren't going smoothly.

[dwighttk]

I'm mostly in agreement... the tweet makes it sound like he's just yelling at everyone in the company unless you zoom in on an image and read through the context.

[boomlinde]

> Of course they can be behind because they are wasting time or because the project requires too many man hours.

A failure of management either way. Hire the right people, get them to do the right job, give them reasonable targets based on reasonable estimates of velocity and the work required to bring the project to completion, create positive incentives to work instead of casually threatening the employees. You know, manage the employees.

If I worked there and knew I wouldn't meet my "KPIs" because of inept management and learned that they'd hold my bonus hostage even if I was a "great contributor", why would I want to work at all, let alone on weekends?

But this is a start-up with unpaid overtime. There is a purpose to deliberately creating unreasonable estimates, and it's to get people to work for free. Based on what I read it seems par for the course, unfortunately.

[apercu]

How do you know the deadlines were reasonable? One of the reasons I quit my last job was because of unreasonable revenue targets from shareholders and the need to push my team beyond what I thought was reasonable due to these pressures. This included some ridiculous deadlines.

[dwighttk]

you might want to read to the end of my comment

[pixl97]

Do you visit the gas station and shop on the weekend? Or is working on the weekend something only the poor should be forced to do.

Of course I think you mean to say "the idea of a 7 day work week is stupid"

[CoolGuySteve]

Thanks Dr. Pedantry.

[dwighttk]

Many gas stations work 24hrs a day without requiring an attendant 24/7. I would be fine if no one worked on the weekend. I might prefer the police and power company kept doing their thing, but those aren't exactly poor people being forced to work.