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qandb
9y ago
> Peer mentoring is part of your job in any field. All morality in a corporate setting is fake by design. Everybody simply maximizes their own bottom line, and if you don't too, you are an idiot. Training your own competition is sim
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9y ago
> you don't feel the slightest obligation ... No morality whatsoever emanates from a company's bottom line. It can certainly not compete with my own bottom line. How can you expect people to agree to train their own competition
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9y ago
> Companies don't want to lock their knowledge into a few good people. It is not their knowledge. It is these "few good people"'s knowledge. > I'd challenge you to take on the task of teaching others ... Never
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9y ago
> Companies want their top performers in the office so they can serve as trainers/mentors/teachers to the new college kids and the incompetent older people they hire. It is not hard to avoid training your own competition. Three
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9y ago
The Bible comes across as better English, but that is a bit unfair, because the King James translation must initially have sounded awful too.