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I disagree.. I mean, yes.. working for yourself is a bit of illusion.. everyone has customers. But the spirit of the question in this case is a bit different. I think 'the man' we're all talking about is a short-sighted middle-manager type who's at the moment working with IT to install web-censoring software, and putting together a dashboard of LOC produced, per engineer, per day.

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Ever dealt with the IRS? Or even a city business licensing authority?

Oh, totally.. but they don't care about me browsing HN..

... the IRS might be interested in a LOC count... :(

You can be employed by someone else and still not work for a short-sighted middle manager type. My boss knows I post on HN, he doesn't care as long as I get my work done, and he doesn't tell me what to do.

I think your comparison is more along the lines of "Do you work with shitty managers or good managers?"

Exactly! I think that's what I was more interested in learning when I proposed this poll... Essentially what level of autonomy people have over how they spend and manage their time and energy.

Well, they're still "the man", and they will let you know it if you don't cross your t's and dot your i's.

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