vignesh343's comments

Also, for the record, I'd like to note my hours are 9-9 not 9-5.

Nice guess, but I'm not Indian and Vignesh isn't my real name. I'm also not an MBA. The real question here is, who made you all-knowing? ;)

I'm not a prick, I'm just an ambitious startup marketer trying to learn about how to improve relations with my dev! Instead of being hostile (and racist), try to be understanding and sympathetic. Who knows, maybe your prick CEO will promote you!

Hi everyone! Thanks for all the helpful comments and suggestions!

I've learned a lot by reading through your posts and I applaud alttab for recognizing that communication (rather than hours of operation) might be at the core of the issue.

For the sake of the discussion (and to help advise me on how to proceed), I'd like to clarify a few points.

First, we have an intern who does work 9-5 (by his own choice, I told him he could set his own hours). For the first 3 hours of the day, he comes to my office asking when my tech-partner will be here so he can resolve some issues. The reason the office hours is such an issue is because he's not being there for the intern. Also, we're hiring more interns that start this week who will also need face time with him in order to advance their projects.

Second, and this is the most important point, because it's come up again and again in the comments, he is consistently missing deadlines and has failed to be very productive. His work is of top quality (why I selected him), but his progress is disappointingly slow. And for the record, he sets his own deadlines and repeatedly misses them.

Third, if he actually was spending his time outside the office working, I would have never made this post. He spends some spare time on the weekend working on the project. The rest of the time he stays up late and gets drunk/high with his girlfriend. He is constantly distracted by a partyboy lifestlye. I didn't want to mention that initially in case my identity is exposed, but at this point, its too relevant of a detail to ignore. I can't control what he does in his spare time, but I know he can't do those things in the office.

I would like to note that I have learned a lot from this post and I now recognize the insistance on timing his schedule is doing me a diservice. I am going to try to sit down with him and have a heart-to-heart about the work progress and abandon discussion about the hours. I have been giving him a convenient excuse to be unproductive by coming off as a prick. I need to focus more on producing and less on the particulars of when production occurs. Despite what many posters have said, I like to think of myself as open-minded and have no problem abandoning my prior philosophy in favor of something that works. Startups are always a learning process and I appreciate those who have helped me learn by sharing wise words of advice. Thank you once again posters!