[netsharc]

To make the example extreme, if you got hired to be a developer, and your boss asks you to clean the toilets, is it okay because hey, he's paying for you to do whatever he wants?

You'd probably say no, because his request is way over the line; to me having a jerkoff know-nothing telling me "Print your work and I'll judge whether you're worth it or not" is over my line.

[badpun]

It's apprarently fairly common for office workers in Japan to clean toilets of their offices. They see as part of taking care of their surroundings (something they perceive as required for harmonious functioning as a human) and not at all beneath them. It starts in elementary schools, where children clean up the school themselves.

[workingdog]

We've adopted "everyone cleans toilets" in our company

0) It keeps me (the CEO) humble 1) It weeds out the prima-donnas 3) It develops respect, everyone leaves the toilet better than they found it

[eitland]

Haven't experienced exactly that but I often did non-coding tasks:

- lunch shopping and preparations, clean up

- transport from one branch to another for Factory Acceptance Testing

- at one point I worked as a consultant for a rather large Norwegian company and one thing I noted was the the most senior leader I ever saw in that company (that I was aware if at least) was also one of those I remember who would make sure to tidy the kitchen and make sure everything went into the dishwasher

[netsharc]

Sure, different cultures, different rules.

If you interviewed at a company and got told "Every quarter, the know-nothing jerkoff CEO wants to see 50 printed pages of your code", and you accepted the job, hey, you've accepted that this is the norm in that company...

[boringg]

What if the "know-nothing jerkoff CEO" also printed off his 50 pages of code at the same time? Would it make it an acceptable deal at that point?