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> doesn't consider himself too high to do the grunt work too go read 'Up the Organization' by Robert Towsend (written many years ago when he was the CEO of Avi
by cosmicray 16y ago
> doesn't consider himself too high to do the grunt work too
go read 'Up the Organization' by Robert Towsend (written many years ago when he was the CEO of Avis Rent-a-car). Everyone at Avis (janitor, receptionist, CEO, all the way down the line) was required to work 1 or 2 days a year at the counter, renting cars. Helped everyone what business they were in, and why they had a job.
- jrockway 16y agoOr, "this is why I don't know anyone smart that works at Avis". No offense, but the day I have to work as a bank teller is the day I stop working for a bank.
- whatusername 16y agoAnd that is why Bank Teller software sucks.
- jarek 16y agoNo, bank software "sucks" because it's built on literally decades, plural, of old systems that can not ever be disturbed or lose data.
- jrockway 16y agoNo, it sucks because banks will not pay for software for their tellers. You've never been a teller, but you know it sucks. So do the banks. But they don't care, because there is no money to be made in improving it. (Wait until they realize that there is no money in etrading either. Then there will be a lot of people on the market that know how to micro-optimize memory allocators. But I digress...)