Readit NewsI would suppose you were looking at many more signs and metric, but then you say it only took you a few hours, so perhaps not ?
I’d assume that dev wasn’t actually writing alone, and people had to discuss the design, talk with the PO/stakeholder, review the code, eventually QA it, manage the deployments etc. Perhaps that poor soul was doing everything alone…but really ?
I can readily think of a few people in my current company that are absolutely drowned by merge request reviews and technical design work, even as their title is just “developper”. I wouldn’t be surprised if they haven’t written a line in weeks, and perhaps one or two fixes in months. They are absolutely critical and I would laugh so hard if someone buying us just fired them because they couldn’t bother looking at other stuff than code written.
Till this day I get monthly balance/statement emails from them even though I have yet to use a single penny of their credit facility. Too bad they don't use all that marketing budget on competent customer experience/service.
Isn't that going to be insignificant compared to everything inside the computer on both ends?
In Sun Tzu's inimitable Art of War, he observes, “All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when we are able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must appear inactive.”[1]
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FYI, one of the reasons restaurants don't do this is the tax impacts. When someone tips 20%, there is no sales tax assessed on the tip — the full 20% goes to the worker. If you increase prices by 20%, that is subject to a sales tax (roughly 10% where I live), which amounts to a 1%-2% increase in the total price.
On top of that, moving tips to wages results in more income and payroll taxes being taken out (most workers do not fully report all of their tips, which saves them both income and payroll taxes).
It might not seem like a lot — just a couple percent here and there — but restaurants have pretty thin margins.
That makes them double bastard.
The next step is a bad one - you actually have to turn the television off, it won't do it for you.
I think also you may be a bit overwhelmed by all the things you feel you should be doing, to the point you don't want to do any of them. So try to forget about them for a while.
Take walks in your neighborhood. Try to notice something that has changed, or is still the same.
In a few weeks maybe the mood will strike to have a cup of tea, and do some reading. Maybe not, maybe next week you'll learn something new.