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Most development jobs on products that matter involve working on large established code bases. Many people get satisfaction from knowing that their work matters
by tensor 7y ago
Most development jobs on products that matter involve working on large established code bases. Many people get satisfaction from knowing that their work matters to end users, even if it's not writing new things in the new shiny language or framework. Referring to these people as "janitors" is pretty damn demeaning, and says more about you than the actual job. Rewrites are rarely the right call, and doing simply to entertain developers is definitely not the right call.
- heinrich5991 7y ago>Referring to these people as "janitors" is pretty damn demeaning, "Referring to the term of "janitors" as demeaning is pretty demeaning and says more about you than your judgement of the parent." I don't like this rhetoric device you just used. Also, I think that janitors do important work as well.
- hu3 7y agoLet's not fool ourselves. The demeaning of janitors was introduced by GP by describing it as something they would rather not do. No mental gymnastics required.
- cma 7y agoHe said he felt like a janitor, next guy said he demeaned others as janitors, and now you are saying he demeaned janitors. There is a level of gymnastics going on.
- hu3 7y agoFirst paragraph: > The common factor in most of my decisions to look for a new job has been realizing that I feel like a very highly compensated janitor instead of a developer. So for that person, feeling like a janitor is incentive for seeking a new job. It's that simple really.
- CDSlice 7y agoThat doesn't mean he is demeaning janitors, just that he doesn't want to be one. There are loads of reasons to not want to be a "code janitor" besides looking down at janitors.
- rswail 7y agoI'm not a gymnast, but comparing people comparing their work to janitors and calling it gymnastics demeans gymnasts. /s