Comment: best practice employment practices (Score 1) 521
in general am a programming project manager with empathy for developers. I don't ask them to work weekends and I provide detailed, reproducible bug reports and I pay on time
hardly true. If you want 100% bug free code then expect the devs to take twice as long to provide the solution (and that's being optimistic). If you don't want the tested-to-death solution, and want to take a pragmatic approach where you assume some bugs will fall through the dev process, then you'll get the solution quicker overall. (obviously there are some devs to whom a bug is a way of life, I assume you will not hire them again)
BTW good for you, not wanting devs to work weekends. Do they get national holidays off too? You are just the kind of empathic boss Dilbert would die for.