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> If I ever start a company the #1 thing I will look for in others is positivity. Good luck with ever hearing about any problem before it's too late to fix it
by brazzy 14y ago
> If I ever start a company the #1 thing I will look for in others is positivity.
Good luck with ever hearing about any problem before it's too late to fix it then...
- chris_wot 14y agoNow hold on... you can, in fact, raise issues in a positive way. "Hey Larry, after I spoke yesterday I checked and we've got corruption on our RAID array... I think I can work towards resolving it, but if not then we need to come up with a mitigation plan." vs. "Larry, we've got corruption on our RAID array. I told you yesterday and you didn't work fast enough on my suggestions, so now we're all screwed. I can't believe your stupidity!"
- brazzy 14y agoSure you can, but I suspect that if positivity is the #1 priority, you're pretty likely to see issues ignored or hand-waved away.
- chris_wot 14y agoNo more so than if you were extremely negative and played the blame game. Ignoring issues is not what I'd call positive though. That's just delusion.
- brazzy 14y agoBeing positive in the face of unrealistic deadlines is exactly that, delusion, and it's a pretty damn common and popular one in a large percentage of all software projects. Look, I'm not saying that a positive attitude is bad, just that it definitely shouldn't be your #1 priority as proposed in the first comment I was replying to.
- chris_wot 14y agoFair points :-)