tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2182962435875556601.post8263232263933760342..comments2023-09-24T08:04:06.909-04:00Comments on FSK's Guide to Reality: Good Boss, Evil BossFSKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11903396202330950362noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2182962435875556601.post-78788431502581822802010-02-08T15:39:56.448-05:002010-02-08T15:39:56.448-05:00Change of management and subtle talk of firing peo...Change of management and subtle talk of firing people is nasty.<br /><br />I'm always disappointed that merit in terms of what work you, pragmatism and how much you achieve isn't properly evaluated in places that fire people.<br /><br />In a group I used to work in, a couple of people worked on basically worthless, easy projects. They weren't even doing real programming. Just placing 1 line of code per URL handler to count how many times it is accessed!!!! That managed to spin out that nonsense for months.<br /><br />Yet these people totally flew under the radar and escaped being fired.<br /><br />Maybe that was because the new management didn't really know what they did. Maybe because they did practically nothing, there was no dirt on them.<br /><br />Maybe the new management didn't have the heart to fire them, because they obviously would have trouble finding new jobs given their lack of ability in certain areas. Maybe they were non-US citizens that would have to go back to scummy countries if they got fired and so they didn't have the heart.<br /><br />But the end-result was that incompetent or badly utilized people kept their jobs, while the people that were competent and did lots of work got canned with no severance pay whatsoever.<br /><br />It pays to be lazy and clueless. If you work hard you will be given more and more work and then fired by some clueless new manager that doesn't even know what you do!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com