On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 02:38:45PM -0400, Kat Nagel wrote:
> Today, after being slashed, intimidated, and forced to accept
> transfers who had been cut from unrelated jobs elsewhere in the
> company, the team looks like this:
>
> Genius (0)..Special (0)..Competent (1)..PromisingNewbies (2)..
> ..Experienced-but-Clueless (2)
> Eager&sensible(0)..Realistic&sensible (1)..Toyhappy (2)..Lazy (2)
I was talking about someone with the whole "teaming" thing last night.
The more I see of it, the more cynical I get about it. I am
beginning to think that it's an attempt to misapply a metaphor
that works for sports, but fails miserably in the working world.
I've worked at a couple different places where teaming meant:
- being able to spread the blame around
- obstructing the talented people by saddling them with idiots
- rendering quick decisions impossible
- giving the idiots as much power as the smart people
- providing a refuge for people with obsolete skill-sets
- providing a way for management to use such terms as
"empowered" without it really having any effect
Maybe it's just my experience, but I'd rather have a few bright
people working for me than a "team".
> Now, I'm not so sure. Not only are they abandoning UNIX in favor
> of NT (none of the newbies has ever worked with UNIX even as a
> user), they are all hyped about animated navigation icons coordi-
> nated with theme songs for each department, and one of them has a
> larcenously casual attitude toward copyrighted material on other sites.
They're doomed. Flee.
---Rsk
Rich Kulawiec
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