4th Week at New Workplace: Libertas!

4th Week at New Workplace: Libertas!

One day to close one month of work here. It means that it is one month since I last saw the venerable guys and gals of the SCS Faction. Also, it means that it was a month since I last saw Ankh and Deli zapping by my car on the highway. Duh.

Tit for tat, I saw many interesting things at this place. As stated earlier in my log, liberty is rampant; the workers come and go as they please, run around playing in the office and pay no heed to the higher management's raffle. In my previous workplaces, such reckless attitudes would warrant an entrenchment suit from the HR department. Here, apparently it has not occurred as far as the oh-so-confidential staff records are concerned (heh, try hiding data from a data miner). How do they do that? Simple.
Even though they worked at their own pace, they really do their jobs. Even if they decide to walk in at 9 AM and walked out at 9.10 AM, if their work is done, the tactical management deemed it alright. Working at own pace have its merits; most programmers, myself included, just could not get their brain logics moving in the heat of the day, so ditching day's work for a nocturnal stint is routine. It's not indiscipline, it's just less-than-normal work hours.
Another reason is that they know their rights and their position. In a software-oriented firm, programmers are key staffs and the main drive. Firing a programmer, even a lowly one on the basis of indiscipline is very, very risky, since it is easier finding a production line worker than a trained computer scientist. Well, everyone can do repetitive manual labor, but few can tolerate the mathematically stressing pressure a computer scientist faces everyday. By exploiting these facts, the workers here enjoy a level of freedom uncommon in most places.