How not to sell me on a job opening
July 31st, 2007 | Published in career | 2 Comments
Had an interview recently with a manager about a development position. When I asked for his organization’s view on spending company time to work on patents, publications, and Redbooks his answer was that they certainly valued patents, and depending on my family situation I should be able to find some time to work on those types of things.
When I later asked about working on an M.S. or participating in a BizTech project he started talking about turning down my workload to 80% and the management team understanding that I’d be working on other things. Elsewhere in the conversation he mentioned “turning it to 100 or 120.”
Am I the only one out there that doesn’t want a job where I’ll be expected to sacrifice time with my family in order to work on intellectual property for the company or am treated as a machine with a knob that can tune how much and how hard I work?
July 31st, 2007 at 7:56 pm (#)
I agree with your decision.
August 1st, 2007 at 4:39 am (#)
Kyle:
You are not the only one. I wrote a post about a similar experience (click the link I added) awhile ago. I generally beleive that overtime is more of a case of management incompetence than anything else.