@alphanerd however I am not a genius, but an expert that knows how to do his work and when told my company I was levaing they offer me to give me everything I wanted, cause they know how much my work worth ;)

@alphanerd ahah I would hire someone like you...cause you will work for free for me...but, grown up, you should know that this is stupid.

@wateringdisease lol

@mjones44 indeed I am not judging. In my post I was just asking "how would you handle that?"

I was just asking for suggestions

@mjones44 last thing. I don t want to disappoint you but I know many programmers that have been working so many hours per day, for so many years, and their code is still embarassing.
So, time is nothing if you don t spend in a good way.

@mjones44 you guys are amazing :D

1. Do you think everybody has the priority of getting far?

2. You can get far in other ways. You think that working extra time on easy repetitive stuff will get you far? I can do that project without effort...it is supereasy for me. What s more challening is study and go deeper, ddiscover new stuff in my spare time. Also I am trying to publish my first programming book: it takes time but you learn a lot.

3. Do you really don t get that I was not talking about getting far or growing. We are talking about a professional expert programmer that knows how to do his job, but doesn t work on a project extra time unpaid. Is it that difficult? Is it normal for you?

4. This behqviour affects our company, cause our client pay US based on how much we work in the office...not the work at home. If you are not able to do a good job in 8 hours you d better to change your job. Working 8 hours I have been able to get the biggest salary of my entire company.

@hndk that already happend. The last winter he started yelling at everybody in the team for no reason. He was affecting the productivity of the team. The bosses had to ask him what was wrong with him and he said he was too stressed because of too much work. But they told him nobody asked him to work gratis overtime...and just to keep it easy. For 2 months he did it...he slowed down and almost became a decent person. But then he started again... He will soon start again complain about the workload that HE is imposing to himself.

@alphanerd @BilboSwaggins
First of all I am very passionate about my work, I really love it. I spend many hours of my spare time researching about new topcis, reading, books and writing libraries.

My company wants to keep Android and iOS projects aligned, proceeding with the same pace, but the estimations are made by both of us. Now, the estimation is supposed to be in workdays, (8 hours). So if there is a task I think it takes 8 hours and he says it is 4 hours, eventually we will write down 6 hours. He says 4 not because he thinks it will take 4, but just because he knows he will work 4 more hours from home.
The result of this is very simple, even an idiot can understand it: I need to work from home 2 hours more (my spare time). The other option is that I have to rush things so that the result may not be as good as we want.

That said, do you think it is reasonable to ask me to work 2h more after work? I meam are you serious? This mean undersell my professionality and my ability.

@alphanerd it seems you didn t understand. I am not complaining that he works more than 40h. I don t give a shit. But since every member of the team estimates the whole work that needs to be done, he affects the estimation in a way that he will ne able to complete the whole work, and I will straggle instead. Cause the Android and iOS apps need to implements the same features. So people will wonder way I always struggle or why I am behind.