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If you can't do anything about it, don't waste cycles on it. I think the point is that you can do something about it - it just requires stepping out of the eng
by damoncali 14y ago
If you can't do anything about it, don't waste cycles on it.
I think the point is that you can do something about it - it just requires stepping out of the engineering midset for moment now and then. I've seen this fatalistic attitude frequently, both in software developers and "real" engineers (mechanical, electrical, etc). It's not healthy for the engineer or the organization, and I can't quite figure out where the attitude comes from.
- michaelochurch 14y agoEngineers are culturally unusual in being very tolerant of criticism (from other engineers). That's because our compilers, nominally subordinate, yell at us on a daily basis about minor syntactic errors. With managers, you can't take the same approach. You cannot simply tell your boss that his managerial style is nukular buttfail. That gets you fired.