I've got the "oh you're leaving" when I get up at 5pm and leave, but never pulled aside by management for it. I don't really understand why others partake.
They'd have to incentivise the hell out of me to get me to do that.
I've got the "oh you're leaving" when I get up at 5pm and leave, but never pulled aside by management for it. I don't really understand why others partake.
They'd have to incentivise the hell out of me to get me to do that.
In all the places I worked there was an informal crunch period and then a very explicit one. Even during one of the formal crunch period I would catch shit for leaving at 10pm even though I was in at 8am. There was definitely a visibility aspect that if you were staying till 1-2am and rolling in at noon that was considered that you were contributing "more". There's a couple shops that do a decent job but large swaths of the industry are completely dysfunctional.
There's also a confirmation bias where if a successful game ships with crunch it is perceived as one of the contributing factor to their success and then further drives crunch across the industry.