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>"I was thinking of hacking the networking stack this weekend to use it – care to join in?"

I love a weekend hack as much as anyone, but I'm assuming this is unpaid and uncompensated... for FOSS that might be fine but for a multi-million dollar project? No way.

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Then you'll just be labeled as "not passionate enough." BTW, even if you worked all weekend, you're still expected to stick around at work late on Thursday for some whiskey tasting or some other bullshit, because if not, you're not a team player or not a good cultural fit :/

Is this a real problem you're seeing today? There are lots of jobs out there. Go find one with a good manager.

This has been a problem in all four jobs I've had, and almost all jobs for which I've ever interviewed (which has been a lot lately).

Just be good at your job and ignore the bullshit. Go home at 5. Has worked for me so far. Maybe I'm not a good cultural fit or whatever, but that's ok. Can't please everyone.

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