Back in the late 80s I worked with the champion of this benchmark. He
alienated absolutely everyone except the boss, with whom he was a
personal friend. After the company was bought out and everyone went
their separate ways we found out the guy was in a bad way with cancer.
We rooted for the cancer.
On 1/8/2014 9:35 PM, Ted MacNEIL wrote:
I remember, from the early 1980's, a quote along the lines of:
If a SYSPROG hasn't p*ssed off at least one person a day, they aren't doing
their job!
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Ted MacNEIL
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From: Mark Jacobs <[email protected]>
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Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 09:08:02
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Subject: Re: Scary Sysprogs
I agree. If you've never failed, you haven't tried hard enough to grow
yourself.
On 01/08/14 09:05, Govind Chettiar wrote:
It's pretty creativity-stifling to work in a company where the threat of being
fired looms. If one works for a firm that has annual RIFs just as a matter of
practice and one is constantly in fear of setting a foot wrong lest one get on
that list, then one is not going to do anything more than the bare minimum. No
one wants to work a single extra minute in that kind of environment. Absent
such a fear, one is more willing to take risks, be innovative.
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