"Don't give your 100%. Never. Once you gave, managers will start expecting more than that." - My mentor.

Facts.

Told this story somewhere else on here, but I'll tell it again:

Had a school assignment that wanted me to loop through a list or dictionary then print a sentence. Obviously, he wanted me to get 4 sentences out of 1. But fuck that. I used 4 print statements and got full credit. Took all of 30 seconds on the question lol

I'm giving it my 100%.

On the first 4 days of the 2-week sprint.

Then I spend some time on a hobby project on day 5 & 6. Play some games on 7 & 8. Masturbate my way through day 9.

On day 10, I use git rebase -i on my branches using HEAD~$(git rev-list --count master..HEAD), with exec (x) and GIT_AUTHOR_DATE in a script to spread all the commits out over the last 10 working days, between 11AM and 2AM.

LOOK, I HAVE WORKED UNTIL 2AM, EVERY SINGLE FUCKING DAY, EVEN WHEN I WAS UNCONSCIOUS AT THE HOSPITAL AFTER THAT CAR ACCIDENT.

@Condor Fact. I like that way. Thanks man. 😊

@bittersweet Wow. 🤩

Is possible to share that script. I gonna try on my company. 😬

@Condor the only sane and professional answer... Thank you!

Nice LPT.

Well... I like to work at 100% (do things correctly and make sure I know what i m doing) so I don't need to work at 200% like everyone else that writes code that crashes in Production.

@maxx if you really feel that what your mentor gave you is good advice then I bet your manager is a piece of shit and is toxic to your work/life balance. They should be inspiring/motivating their team to perform 100%, giving timely feedback on your performance, helping you grow in your career path and more

@billgates touchè

@LrdShaper Yeah man, he does. 😐

Lots of really good advice in this post and the comments 👌

Well to be perfectly honest, in my humble opinion, of course without offending anyone who thinks differently from my point of view, but also by looking into this matter in a different perspective and without being condemning of one's view and by trying to make it objectified, and by considering each and every one's valid opinion, I honestly believe that I completely forgot what I was going to say.

Another one is office politics. Beware of your teammates.

@Condor once upon a time 😂

@Devnergy 😫

Im more like give only 100% when its reaaaaaly necessary. Otherwise im like: nah, low power is enough.

@LrdShaper what is the thing you mentioned? Work life balance? I only know OTY OTY balance (overtime thank you - OT without pay)