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"You are an adult. You will manage your own machine and tools." seems to be almost directly in opposition to "You will not dig ditches here, and we will not ask
by miker64 14y ago
"You are an adult. You will manage your own machine and tools." seems to be almost directly in opposition to "You will not dig ditches here, and we will not ask you to do so."
I'm not sure that's inherently a bad thing though. It quietly pushes towards a follow the standard (hopefully automated) system setup, but feel free to drift from that where it doesn't work for you.
- mparlane 14y agoIn a world of "MIS" this sounds like a godsend. Needing someone to come over from another building to let you install a new program is a huge wall of WHY?!
- greenyoda 14y agoThat might be possible if the company is still 100% developers. But once your company grows big enough to hire less-technical people - designers, sales and customer support staff, product managers, etc. - it's probably more cost-effective to have some degree of specialization. I can't imagine that it would be possible for all Google or Facebook employees to manage their own machines and tools.
- Evbn 14y agoEven in Eng org we appreciate the tools teams that dig ditches for us.