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> Its just that geeks are more likely to stand up to a manager (They respect ideas, not authority) How much of this is inherit in "geeks" and how much is just
by majelix 14y ago
> Its just that geeks are more likely to stand up to a manager (They respect ideas, not authority)
How much of this is inherit in "geeks" and how much is just because we're lucky enough to be in one of the strongest job markets around? Many people would be ecstatic to have the problem of recruiter spam.
- Lost_BiomedE 14y agoI don't think it is the job market as much as personality types. I saw this consistently in bad markets, too.
- himanshuchanda 14y agoI guess its not about the job market. Geeks are more of creators and artists. They dont bother much of the hierarchies and luckily the hierarchies too dont have an issue because they deliver. Its just that whose in more power. In the factory age it was the sales man. In the tech age its the geek
- victorhn 14y agoI think we all are wired to bother about hierarchies, it's just that among "geeks" the perceived rank has to be more about actual substance and real acomplishment, compared with "normal" hierarchies where the differentiator is about who is the more social, political person even when often the person has no substance nor real acomplishment.