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> Programmers have an immense amount of power, and there is no reason whatsoever why he shouldn’t simply ignore the pointless social preening and get on and mak
by albertgoeswoof 9y ago
> Programmers have an immense amount of power, and there is no reason whatsoever why he shouldn’t simply ignore the pointless social preening and get on and make the product that he wants to.
what
so you're just going to ignore everyone else and build something you think is right, because you're writing the code?
I would most certainly undo your work and fire you, it would be much cheaper than selling all of your assumptions.
- w_t_payne 9y agoThat is presuming you are able to find out what is happening -- the dysfunctional situation that I described comes about mainly because everybody is pedalling so hard they don't have time for humane man-management let alone watertight oversight and review. In a half-way competent organisation the team is able to align to common goals and people can be trusted to work together towards a mutually agreed outcome. It is when the organisation is run in an aggressively competitive dog-eat-dog manner -- where (for example) a five man team is responsible for its' own profit and loss; where the teams that are perceived as performing well -- that are willing to lie and deceive more aggressively -- are allowed to cannibalise budget and resources from teams that try to maintain some semblance of decency -- where your nationality and race have a bearing on whether you have credibility within the organisation -- where managers scream at each other in the corridors and conspire against each other behind their backs -- and where engineers are threatened with lawsuits should they dare to leave ...