General Discussion

rather than their BS-ing skills, it becomes obvious pretty quickly who’s slacking and who’s working.

When I was able to work from home, I was on teams that were planning and executing software projects for a large corp. I could go into an office and collaborate with people in other cities and on other continents, or I could do that from home. Fortunately, most of the time I could work remotely, toward the end of my employment.

There were certainly those who didn’t produce to an acceptable level, and they usually got uninvited to continue at some point (much easier if they’re contractors). There were a few insufferable suck-ups, narcissists, and bullies, but they usually proved to be ineffective in the long run and also didn’t last in most cases.

For me, I was motivated not by loyalty to the soulless corporation I worked for, but by the esprit de corps I had with my teammates and a desire to learn and keep improving. The most mortifying thing for me would have been to let my teammates down and shove work onto them that I should have been taking care of.