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I agree with you, but I am also hesitant to say that we are in the majority of people. When someone does something more efficiently I am all ears just like you.
by weaksauce 16y ago
I agree with you, but I am also hesitant to say that we are in the majority of people. When someone does something more efficiently I am all ears just like you. I don't think that the majority of people distinguish hard worker and more efficient worker though so the two get lumped into the category of "makes me look bad."
- lsc 16y agoA tech company with the "Don't make us look bad" attitude is not going to last long, at least, not as a tech company.
- SoftwareMaven 16y agoA startup with that attitude won't last long. Tech companies can last quite a long time with any poisonous attitude, once the cash cow has been found. I've experienced "work by CYA." It isn't pretty, but it has the "advantage" that nothing too bad ever happens.
- lsc 16y agousually those companies become primarily sales oriented rather than technology oriented. Take Oracle. Yeah, they have some technology... and they even develop some new stuff. But primarily they work in sales. A less radical example would be Microsoft. The problem with the cya approach is that it minimizes the risk for any particular individual, not for the organization as a whole. They don't take the option that is least likely to fail, they take the option that is least likely to bite them personally in the ass if it does fail.