When I was at Broderbund I got a rep for walking around a lot. My boss wrote me up saying that there was no way I could solve a problem when not sitting at my computer.
When I quit he hinted that with his contacts I'd never get another job in games, I was working 5 days later.
Myopic views, such as "must be sitting at a desk in an office", will never be the path to creative solutions to problems.
Managers who have nothing to do love to go after people for stuff like this. When a manager's job is just to crack the whip, not to remove barriers, things get bad pretty quickly.
When I quit he hinted that with his contacts I'd never get another job in games, I was working 5 days later.
Myopic views, such as "must be sitting at a desk in an office", will never be the path to creative solutions to problems.