I feel you, dude. Sometimes we need to go herd sheep for a year or two. It really makes you appreciate how intelligent the idiots we have to deal with at work are.

Arriving late is like giving yourself an hourly rate raise

Meh. Everyone needs to optimize for their tolerance to bullshit. It's a lot of bullshit to use leverage, or find another job, especially when employment is merely a means to an end.

What are you, the punctuality police?

If you are not replaceable because you do a ton of tasks other people can’t do, especially if you’re salaried, then it seems pretty fair to make your own time for things.

There are definitely other corners you shouldn’t cut when in that type of position, but being allowed to manage your own time is not one of them.

Nah, I was working 3 weeks without a free day abroad, but that didn't count for my time back, so I still needed to sit in the office, although I needed some rest and there wasn't much to do for me in this week

My direct boss said, that I'm often coming in late, but I'm always here when needed, doesn't matter what
And he said this as a positive thing

It really depends on the job though

www.fox2detroit.com/news/ford-ai-engineering-challenges-rehiring.amp (Sorry for fox link, the other one I have is paywalled)

I personally know people affected by this, they were let got and last week they got offers to fix a bunch of stuff that AI did and didn't do

Survivorship bias i suspect, the company needs to fuck up big enough for it to be worth noting, survive that fuck-up and then admit enough wrongdoing (fiscally, if nothing else) to be able to be in the situation where a story like that would come out.

I think we'll hear more over time, but as a thing that happened in the past.

Some companies might not survive to rehire, some might only just survive and rehiring isn't on the cards.

Some might limp forwards and work through without rehires.

Is your employer by chance hiring for junior/fresh engineers who won't use AI, or is using AI one of the job requirements?

watching companies fail because they thought ai would work is lol

no industry with half a brain thinks ai is going to replace their top workers

as to having an example of real life regret look up ford

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgrkd41n2v9o

Interesting. We laid off all of our junior engineers, and only kept senior people who are now expected to use AI for junior engineer tasks, then review it all and fix it all. Would be easier for me to just write it all myself rather than babysit some AI and argue with it when it fucks up.

I do not envy the people who will have to maintain that giant ball of vibe-coded shit, assuming the company still exists in the future after that mess inevitably blows up spectacularly.