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Please omit swipes, not to mention slurs, from your comments here. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

"Edit out swipes."

"When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. 'That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3' can be shortened to '1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

If I hired a full time programmer and found out they had two other jobs I'd probably let them focus on those other two. If they were showing the "C" behaviors in all three jobs, they have no job security, unless they work where they can't be let go.

Shouldn't you measure output instead of hours spent on the job? People could be productive or not with one job as well as there.

LOL

Measuring output is what this whole post is about.

1. "If you have poor output, you won't last long. Here's what 'poor output' looks like..."

2. "But what if they have poor output because they're working three jobs?"

3. "Then I'd let them go."

You: "Cruel! Shouldn't you be measuring their output!?"

IME many people are in it for the love of the game. They want to get better, they want to be able to perform the “magic” the Sr people come up with. It’s fun.

> And when corporate needs to lay off 30% they’ll think nothing of it.

Having seen this literally play out this year: it was all of the C’s that were first to be cut shrug

> Typical Kent, trying to do the right thing, regardless of the cost. Unfortunately, this time the cost was him losing his job.

Well Kent got fired from Facebook, so maybe he wasn’t such an A player in their eyes. ;)

In a couple of companies I'm familiar with the cuts weren't based on performance in any discernable way.

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