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To be fair I know of people in private industry who have said some of the exact same things. It isn't limited to just government employees.
by JaimeThompson 6y ago
To be fair I know of people in private industry who have said some of the exact same things. It isn't limited to just government employees.
- pc86 6y agoIf you work for a modern software company (not a service company that sells software), and you honestly suggest Visual Source Safe, you'll get fired. There's just no reasonably intelligent reason to suggest it. You practically have to assault someone in the break room to get fired from a government job.
- barbecue_sauce 6y agoWould you get fired, or would people just assume you were being sarcastic?
- pc86 6y ago> > honestly
- a1369209993 6y agoThe question isn't whether you honestly suggest it; the question is whether they believe you when you express sincerity.
- to11mtm 6y agoI'd ask whether to set up the build pipeline for VB6 or ASMX Services, lol
- dan-robertson 6y agoYou would not get fired. Probably everyone would forget you even said it. If you want people in a company to be able to produce good ideas, they must have reasonable leeway to disagree or be contrarian.
- JeremyNT 6y agoBut if your org is using $oldtech and some new person comes in recommending $newtech, you'll be in great company if you argue that $newtech sucks and you wish you could just keep using $oldtech. Organizational inertia is definitely a thing, and technology trends do not move as quickly in all sectors.
- tomc1985 6y agoBut how good is $newtech really? Is it someone trying to screw over other older employees in the name of his job security? Is Mr. $newtech in touch with the salespeople hawking this product? Is he being incentivized to advocate for it? How many secondary changes will $newtech result in, and will they deliver so much more value as to justify the expense, inconvenience, retraining, and tears that will come from replacing $oldtech? My guess is, in most circumstances, probably not "New tech" lately feels more and more like whatever the next breed of inexperienced geeks decided to reinvent
- erik_seaberg 6y agoI worked for a startup with ex-Microsoft management in the 1990s, so we used VSS. All joking aside, we actually did lose about a day's work to that pile of fun. I'm told that at this point sales will quietly try to talk you out of buying it.