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Re: Quality of life vs. crunch
Sandbag: Mike never said we crunch for the hell of it, I never said we crunch for the hell of it. When we DO crunch, because we need to meet an aggressive deadline we have a policy in place to ensure people don't work past a certain time at night. We don't even need to come in to the office until 1.30pm, we just have to do… -
Re: Quality of life vs. crunch
That's certainly not the feeling Mike gave in that video though, and initially you seemed to support that. He said he only hires people who want to stay there late (and do stay there late) of their own accord. That's what I meant by "crunching for the hell of it"; because feeling pressured to stay late because that =… -
Re: Quality of life vs. crunch
I've a wife and 2 daughters, they always come first and they are my rudder for all aspects of my health. I won't sacrifice anything in their life, even when in crunch officially I take Nikitta to School in the morning, work, come home at lunch time and spend time with Nuala and Kirsten before going back to work. I come… -
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Not to copy what Kevin said again but. I have a wife of almost 8 years and a soon to be 4 year old son and another child on the way this summer. Three of four nights I play games, sculpt, draw, cook and spend time with my family still. I go home for dinner and then come back after most nights or I come in a little earlier… -
Re: Quality of life vs. crunch
I think Capps is being misinterpreted a bit, and I think TCE can be a overly vitriolic at times (seems to be the brits, mostly, with their crazy modern labor laws). Yet, Epic does come off looking bad in all this. I'm not sure if it will matter - I'd still keep them near the top of my list if/when I was looking for work.… -
Re: Quality of life vs. crunch
Funny, everytime I watch some tv show or film with my wife and theres a scene where the husband has to go out to war, or to rescue someone from a burning building etc, she always turns to me and says 'I'm glad you do what you do for a living' :) I mean, every POV in this thread is valid, but for us, spending a little too… -
Re: Quality of life vs. crunch
Honestly I feel a lot like Mr. Capps on this. I work a lot. Even take my work home with me at times. I want things to be perfect. I hate when things aren't the best that they could be. I always try to find ways to make things better and that comes from spending a lot of my time doing it. Granted not everyone will share… -
Re: Quality of life vs. crunch
I am all for making the best product that you can. I acknowledge the fact that there is crunch in our industry. The idea of specific times in a dev cycle having official crunch is reasonable. I disagree with people declaring that everyone has to crunch together all the time. There are multiple times in the dev cycle where… -
Re: Quality of life vs. crunch
edit: to robg: I agree. that was the situation in all the past places I worked. WE actually had mandatory crunch one time, for all departments, even though it was only the LDs who were very behind (i wont name the company). I asked why, and was told it was to keep moral up. Furthermore, We were told we would get bonuses,…
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