<story><title>Devex: What actually drives productivity</title><url>https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3595878</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rektide</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;I solved it, I got nothing.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Alas one of the most defining aspects of business seems to be an entire lack of rewards for being the Johnny On The Spot, for tackling shit. It&amp;#x27;s absurd how little benefit there is to being good or caring or taking on the hard shit.</text></item><item><author>Bellend</author><text>Give me a life altering kickback as a fat cheque each April or get the minimum possible work I can do to keep my job whilst management tries to figure out what that is and if I am viable.&lt;p&gt;I do maybe 20% a week of my total.&lt;p&gt;To be clear, I have been through the stress. ESPECIALLY in the games industry where a specific corner&amp;#x2F;corner collision had me crying and wished I was dead coz it was on me. I solved it, I got nothing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TeMPOraL</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t know if this is even solvable in principle. There&amp;#x27;s just little to no correlation between the tough parts of this job, and the outcomes visible to stakeholders (even technical managers).&lt;p&gt;Spent two days dealing with memory corruption caused by a badly-written third-party library (proprietary, binary-only distributed)? I may have felt like I own the universe when I finally found the problem, but what does my manager see? Me having promised the feature today, and now saying it&amp;#x27;ll be next week.</text></comment>
<story><title>Devex: What actually drives productivity</title><url>https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3595878</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rektide</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;I solved it, I got nothing.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Alas one of the most defining aspects of business seems to be an entire lack of rewards for being the Johnny On The Spot, for tackling shit. It&amp;#x27;s absurd how little benefit there is to being good or caring or taking on the hard shit.</text></item><item><author>Bellend</author><text>Give me a life altering kickback as a fat cheque each April or get the minimum possible work I can do to keep my job whilst management tries to figure out what that is and if I am viable.&lt;p&gt;I do maybe 20% a week of my total.&lt;p&gt;To be clear, I have been through the stress. ESPECIALLY in the games industry where a specific corner&amp;#x2F;corner collision had me crying and wished I was dead coz it was on me. I solved it, I got nothing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>esafak</author><text>Move to greener pastures and let the competition eat their lunch. Voting with your feet is how we have nice things.</text></comment>