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You usually only meet jerks when they’re in positions of prestige and very competent (brilliant?). Why? Because the jerks who aren’t good at they’re job are fir
by dev_dull 7y ago
You usually only meet jerks when they’re in positions of prestige and very competent (brilliant?). Why? Because the jerks who aren’t good at they’re job are fired long ago. You might start to think that there’s some connection, but really is just they’ve managed to barely hang out by virtue of their skill.
- dgellow 7y ago> Because the jerks who aren’t good at they’re job are fired long ago. That’s wishful thinking. A lot of jerks will never be fired and are terrible at their job. It’s not that simple and isn’t cheap to fire someone. IMHO the main difference is mostly that jerks with power will negatively impact more people, thus are more visible.
- User23 7y agoThe jerks with power who appear bad at their job are actually good at their real job and that's politicking. They're only bad at their nominal job, whatever it may be, which doesn't matter by definition since they are successful enough to have power.
- postfacto 7y ago^^ This. Also, your real job is making your manager look good to his manager, not actually the nominal job of writing reliable, stable, flexible code that you signed up for in your employment agreement.
- arethuza 7y ago"Because the jerks who aren’t good at they’re job are fired long ago" In many organisations, usually larger ones, they're usually the first to get promoted as they spend all of their time "managing up".
- sys_64738 7y agoPretty much this. Those who are irreplaceable (if you think they're not then it's not you) can get away with anything. But they are a minute percentage of people in the workplace. Those who are jerks to others will be gone as you say simply because they're toxic.