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Start the morning with some coffee and sarcasm. Fun read. Though it might be problematic that some managers might take it serious. Usually the dumb ones.
by seivan 14y ago
Start the morning with some coffee and sarcasm. Fun read. Though it might be problematic that some managers might take it serious. Usually the dumb ones.
- michaelochurch 14y agoI think that's why he said (paraphrased) "I troll U" at the end. Most software engineers would get the joke immediately, but many managers wouldn't. The problem is that executives never read to the end of anything. They still have to call their kids (or interns, same thing really) in to show them how to work a "scrollie bar". There was a very large company that required every employee to submit a 63-word summary of accomplishments per quarter (do they still do this?) I pointed out, rather publicly, that this was precisely the low-end of adult reading speed (3.5-8.0 words per second being the typical range) times the short-term memory loop (18 seconds). That didn't go over well. Ah, managers. They sure love sunbathing in the Yucatan, but that bright point just above them isn't the sun...
- mwfunk 14y agoI can't tell if this is parody, or a parody of a parody, or a parody of a parody of a parody. The tone is very much like the original article, but as if written by a hypothetical Scumbag Steve software engineer rather than an imaginary Scumbag Steve management type.
- ttrreeww 14y ago...and then they get promoted.