GREAT story. ++ Mike
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [NF] Best advice ... From: Paul McNett <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: 8/13/2012 3:41 PM On 8/13/12 5:06 AM, Tracy Pearson wrote: > http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1926692 > > But the best way to have a future is to be part of a team that values > progress over politics, ideas over territory, and initiative over decorum. > (Russ Olsen 08/08/2012) Great article and the comments are entertaining too. One of the reasons I like being a consultant instead of an employee is avoiding the stupid political in-fighting. I do what I think needs doing, including wiping away or refactoring bad code, redesigning messes, etc. I do this constantly with code I've written too, so nobody should take personal offense when I do this to their code. I once took a job at a corporation and made all kinds of changes pretty much immediately. There was just a ton of low-hanging fruit in the internal application they'd developed. The app was used by a couple hundred users that were in the middle of rioting due to the application's (lack of) performance. I had the blessing of my team to improve the application until they realized I was starting to make them look really bad. All of a sudden I was blamed for things like making the application so easy and fast for users to get their jobs done that the users were no longer paying close enough attention and therefore my optimizations were directly resulting in higher data-entry mistakes. It was awkward being in the work situation of the users loving me while my own team hated me. In summary, this was a dysfunctional team in a dysfunctional company. I'm happy for the experience but glad I saw it for what it was and left at the first opportunity. Paul [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
