The moment an other team couldn't deliver for a deadline. CEO came to me, gave me 50 bucks told me to get a pizza and some hash and just work the night and deliver the damn app. So I did. Got a week holiday for free in return. One of the best guys I worked for.

You're off a week 😂😂 But damn your boss seems like a good one. 👌

@jhh2450 yeah man! He was the best! Too bad he sold the company and decided to do something else. Resigned shortly after because the new CEO was a prick. Still hang out with the old CEO, proper drinkingbuddy.

What..
He asked you to get pizza and that other thing so you could stay stoned the whole night finishing the app.

That sounds like my kind of boss.
Isn't it !legal where you live

@graviton Not everywhere has ridiculous anti-overtime laws like Germany.

Seriously though: if I want to work more hours, why can't I do that? It's my choice.

@Ashkin he's talking about the hash

@krlooss *shrugs*

@graviton Maybe the CEO was fresh out of fucks?

@Ashkin

Explain this foreign concept of anti-overtime law.

(actually being serious here)

@ragnarr023 Some countries attempt to reduce unemployment by forcing companies to hire more if they need more working hours held, instead of just asking their employees to work more.

Some also see it as a way to protect employees from being pressured (directly or not, sometimes it's just peer-pressure) into working longer shifts than would be good for them.

The problem with these law is that they reduce some freedom for the employee to choose to work more to make more, a choice easily understandable by devs who will usually sit at a computer in order to afford sitting at a computer anyway ; and just makes the country less competitive on the international scene, as hiring a new employee can be very overkill compared to having big overtimes in times of heavy load, and these countries tend to make employees very hard to fire once not needed anymore.

All in all, as much as I like left-sided laws, anti-overtime is a big "meh" to me: not effective enough to be justified

Not to disturb your rant but we're currently trying to plan a Dutch devRant meeting!

@linuxxx Dutch devRant meeting???? I'm interested

@micfort you a dutchie? 😃

Belgian here... Where would that meetup go down? If it's not too far from the border, maybe I'd make the trip...

@linuxxx yeah, I'm a dutchie (but I have never called myself dutchie)

@linuxxx count me in!

@linuxxx where will this meeting take place? Can anyone attend?

@bashlord If its up to me any devRanter can join! No place etc decided yet :)

@linuxxx cool, count me in! Is there anywhere I can go to stay updated?

@bashlord We've got a chatroom setup at riot.im!

@linuxxx How do I join it? I just registered and my username is bashlord, if that's of any use

@bashlord Yes! Let me add you :)

@linuxxx any possibility you can add me too? Would like to join the dutchies meeting :) dont have any dev friends yet 😄 same username on riot

@ctrlz No problem, give me a second!

@Condor I dont have Facebook :)

@Condor Also I block everything related to Facebook on my network so that won't work haha!

Count me in! Dutch have hijacked this post:-)

@linuxxx Ich glaube dass ein Treffen in Deutschland mehr Leute anziehen würde 😋😎

@linuxxx What's the age range?

@hjk101 it's the 17th century all over again!!

@linuxxx so when was it?

@simo002m For participants?
@erik404 The idea now (only from three people as the rest isn't responding for now) is the last weekend of September :)

@linuxxx And then one of the days :P*

@Condor Right. What was your email again? (sorry fuck my memory 😅)

@Condor Thank!

@linuxxx got my email adres noted down? Would like to delete it :)

@erik404 Yes!

yeah

@erik404 never saw it shall I contact @condor ?

@erik404 got it

Wait what?? He gave you hash? That sounds flipping amazing. In the U.S we have a different kind of boss. The prick that makes you want to murder him kind. I want to get hash from my boss :(

@AleCx04 maybe thats a difference in culture, we want to git shit done. Dont care about what someone does or does not.

@erik404 and it really does bite us in the ass most of the time man :(

@AleCx04 Yeah can imagine. Taking away someones privilige to do the fuck he or she wants is one step closer to totalitarianism.