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I’ve always said if you want to get a developer to do something, just question their intelligence. This works on way too may otherwise smart people. It somewh
by vitaflo 4y ago
I’ve always said if you want to get a developer to do something, just question their intelligence. This works on way too may otherwise smart people.
It somewhat makes sense, many devs grew up smart and were told they were smart from a young age. You need to be to do the job. It becomes part of their identity and is a glaring blind spot for many.
I’ve worked with way too many devs that were so afraid of being wrong or had to prove they were right and were taken advantage of because of it.
- Jensson 4y agoNot sure how giving people motivation is exploitation. You still have to pay them to own what they built, otherwise you just motivated them to build something for themselves, either way it isn't exploitative.
- xboxnolifes 4y agoIf you replace the word motivation in this comment with manipulation, you should see why it's exploitative.
- Jensson 4y agoIf you say that a great teacher manipulates their students to do more overtime work is that exploitation just because we changed the words? Normally people would use the words "motivate" and "homework", but the meaning of the sentence is the same.
- MrGilbert 4y agoI'm getting paid by the hour, not by the task. As such, there is no point in "motivating" me to get more work done from my perspective, other than to manipulate me for your own benefit and replace me as soon as the overdrive's price needs to get paid.
- Jensson 4y agoIf you could work without caring about pay but still get paid then that would be optimal, no? We are talking about that situation here, someone made people do work for non-monetary rewards but they still get paid, to me that seems like a good thing. I'd rather work because I want to than because I have to, call it manipulating or motivating I don't care, if they can make me forget the drudgery when doing it that is a good thing. But apparently that makes me stupid, I don't see why that is dumb. Being manipulated to want to work is a good thing if you want the money.
- xboxnolifes 4y agoThe teacher manipulates the student for the student's benefit. The business owner / manager manipulates the employee for the business' benefit. See how you needed to use a teaching example to not make it sound bad?
- flippinburgers 4y agoThis is hilarious in part because I see it in myself.
- meghan_rain 4y agoCan you give an examply of questioning intelligence?
- CapstanRoller 4y agoAny variant of the old "I bet you can't <X>" trick. Basically it's a form of 'negging'[0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negging https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negging
- xref 4y agoYou’re not the kind of person who can figure that out?
- flippinburgers 4y agoA clever manager would never question but talk about how something looks like a true challenge and just leave it at that.