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A managers job is to get things done using YOU as the tool. Your happiness is as irrelevant to this as the happiness of your keyboard. If you work better happy
by jqm 11y ago
A managers job is to get things done using YOU as the tool. Your happiness is as irrelevant to this as the happiness of your keyboard.
If you work better happy... fine, that's a consideration. But really it's the only one. The goal isn't for you to be happy. The goal is to get tasks accomplished. One keyboard breaks you go get another one. The store shelves are full of them. And that's how the pyramids got built.
- marknutter 11y ago> If you work better happy... fine, that's a consideration. But really it's the only one. Not only do I work better happy (I do), I stick around longer. And that's really the key, here. Sure you can squeeze productivity out of creators while disregarding their happiness, but everyone has their limits. They will eventually leave and take with them a wealth of tribal knowledge. Corporations are notoriously bad at measuring the cost of losing employees with domain specific knowledge about their products or services. The attitude is typically that creators are interchangeable like cogs in a machine.