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What I reacted to was the suggestion that > it also has the side effect of diminishing job prospects is a good or desirable thing.
by djur 11y ago
What I reacted to was the suggestion that
> it also has the side effect of diminishing job prospects
is a good or desirable thing.
- belenos46 11y agoFor the employee it's not. For the employer, it obviously is. If you can't get hired somewhere else, you're not going to bail. As someone dealing with basically this situation, it sucks, but if I was also getting handed one-off "solve this puzzle and we're going to use the code you make every day" problems and raises early and often, it wouldn't suck nearly this much.
- benjohnson 11y agoI'm making the attempt at being brutally honest. I share this as honesty as well as I can with my employees - as they understand the career and employment pitfalls of being the "PostgreSQL on ARM32 FreeBSD 9.1 dude" as opposed to the "I can figure out [anything]SQL on [anthing] dude" I supposes I could sugar coat things - but given that I'm hiring really smart people they'll figure it out and won't trust me one bit.