Comments on: How to Keep Crappy Programmers http://codeanthem.latchbabies.com/blog/2010/04/how-to-keep-crappy-programmers/ Fri, 18 Jun 2010 03:14:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Maxx Daymon http://codeanthem.latchbabies.com/blog/2010/04/how-to-keep-crappy-programmers/comment-page-1/#comment-428 Maxx Daymon Wed, 12 May 2010 22:26:43 +0000 http://www.codeanthem.com/blog/?p=196#comment-428 @Lance One of the most common dysfunctions I've seen in managers is thinking and acting as if management and parenting are the same thing. Most people don't have any experience related to authority outside of being parented, parenting, and being managed by someone who learned that way. Fortunately, there are coaches and courses to learn how to operate as a team of adults, though few take advantage of it. Ironically, once you objectify people and treat them like children, they are inclined to respond accordingly, and the vicious cycle kicks in. Also interesting is that you can take any group of people, declare one a manager, and this dynamic sets in, even if you swap out the roles. @Lance One of the most common dysfunctions I’ve seen in managers is thinking and acting as if management and parenting are the same thing. Most people don’t have any experience related to authority outside of being parented, parenting, and being managed by someone who learned that way. Fortunately, there are coaches and courses to learn how to operate as a team of adults, though few take advantage of it. Ironically, once you objectify people and treat them like children, they are inclined to respond accordingly, and the vicious cycle kicks in. Also interesting is that you can take any group of people, declare one a manager, and this dynamic sets in, even if you swap out the roles.

]]> By: "R" http://codeanthem.latchbabies.com/blog/2010/04/how-to-keep-crappy-programmers/comment-page-1/#comment-408 "R" Fri, 07 May 2010 04:08:54 +0000 http://www.codeanthem.com/blog/?p=196#comment-408 WOW... THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT IT IS LIKE AT THE COMPANY I'M AT NOW... 1) I've built a software in a language(platform) I did not know(so code kinda sucked but software still worked)... and the engineers that "use" it DON'T USE IT. AHHHHHHH. 2)Then there is shit that is beyond multitasking. Currently I'm maintaining 5 or 6 (lost count) projects with dozens of "subset projects" with little to know docs (no time to make them). So every time something may go wrong its sometimes hard to go back to fix because I'm missing deadlines of other projects and forgot how to fix the other one that is broke. 3) AND EMAILS, tooo many. Every morning when I get in I have hundreds of emails and then as I'm trying to read them all (right when I get in) my boss is like "did you read that email about xxxxx?" NOOOO I'm trying to read the other F*CKING EMAILS. So for now I just "Mark as Read" them all. I CAN'T STAND IT! 4) As for salary age = more pay rather than experience = more pay. And the list goes on and on.... As soon as I can find a different job in a better environment I'M OUT! THANKS FOR POSTING THIS!!! Now I know I'm not the only one experiencing this. WOW… THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT IT IS LIKE AT THE COMPANY I’M AT NOW…

1) I’ve built a software in a language(platform) I did not know(so code kinda sucked but software still worked)… and the engineers that “use” it DON’T USE IT. AHHHHHHH.
2)Then there is shit that is beyond multitasking. Currently I’m maintaining 5 or 6 (lost count) projects with dozens of “subset projects” with little to know docs (no time to make them). So every time something may go wrong its sometimes hard to go back to fix because I’m missing deadlines of other projects and forgot how to fix the other one that is broke.
3) AND EMAILS, tooo many. Every morning when I get in I have hundreds of emails and then as I’m trying to read them all (right when I get in) my boss is like “did you read that email about xxxxx?” NOOOO I’m trying to read the other F*CKING EMAILS. So for now I just “Mark as Read” them all. I CAN’T STAND IT!
4) As for salary age = more pay rather than experience = more pay.

And the list goes on and on….

As soon as I can find a different job in a better environment I’M OUT!

THANKS FOR POSTING THIS!!! Now I know I’m not the only one experiencing this.

]]> By: Paul Beattie http://codeanthem.latchbabies.com/blog/2010/04/how-to-keep-crappy-programmers/comment-page-1/#comment-400 Paul Beattie Thu, 06 May 2010 09:11:14 +0000 http://www.codeanthem.com/blog/?p=196#comment-400 Sounds like Orbis... Sounds like Orbis…

]]> By: Kelly French http://codeanthem.latchbabies.com/blog/2010/04/how-to-keep-crappy-programmers/comment-page-1/#comment-390 Kelly French Wed, 05 May 2010 14:46:57 +0000 http://www.codeanthem.com/blog/?p=196#comment-390 Environments like this are conducive to the <a href="http://codewright.blogspot.com/2005/12/codewright-and-code-monkey.html" rel="nofollow">Code Monkey</a> Environments like this are conducive to the Code Monkey

]]> By: How I Got 50k Visitors to My Blog in One Month - Remarkablogger http://codeanthem.latchbabies.com/blog/2010/04/how-to-keep-crappy-programmers/comment-page-1/#comment-375 How I Got 50k Visitors to My Blog in One Month - Remarkablogger Mon, 03 May 2010 16:14:39 +0000 http://www.codeanthem.com/blog/?p=196#comment-375 [...] news sites driving traffic, a huge part of it was also Twitter and Facebook. My last post, “How to Keep Crappy Programmers” was tweeted over 200 times and shared on Facebook over 90 times. I also have a sidebar [...] [...] news sites driving traffic, a huge part of it was also Twitter and Facebook. My last post, “How to Keep Crappy Programmers” was tweeted over 200 times and shared on Facebook over 90 times. I also have a sidebar [...]

]]> By: Oneda | Aconteceu no Twitter 14 - 25/04/10 a 01/05/10 http://codeanthem.latchbabies.com/blog/2010/04/how-to-keep-crappy-programmers/comment-page-1/#comment-370 Oneda | Aconteceu no Twitter 14 - 25/04/10 a 01/05/10 Sun, 02 May 2010 18:16:01 +0000 http://www.codeanthem.com/blog/?p=196#comment-370 [...] AkitaOnRails  todos já vimos isso, com certeza RT @viniciusteles: How to Keep Crappy Programmers http://www.codeanthem.com/blog/2010/04/how-to-keep-crappy-programmers/ [...] [...] AkitaOnRails  todos já vimos isso, com certeza RT @viniciusteles: How to Keep Crappy Programmers http://www.codeanthem.com/blog/2010/04/how-to-keep-crappy-programmers/ [...]

]]> By: Sid http://codeanthem.latchbabies.com/blog/2010/04/how-to-keep-crappy-programmers/comment-page-1/#comment-352 Sid Fri, 30 Apr 2010 09:16:19 +0000 http://www.codeanthem.com/blog/?p=196#comment-352 You can also make them develop websites in IE6... no point chasing all the new browsers. They are simpler to develop and everyone else is already doing that. You can also make them develop websites in IE6… no point chasing all the new browsers. They are simpler to develop and everyone else is already doing that.

]]> By: yadab http://codeanthem.latchbabies.com/blog/2010/04/how-to-keep-crappy-programmers/comment-page-1/#comment-348 yadab Fri, 30 Apr 2010 04:28:52 +0000 http://www.codeanthem.com/blog/?p=196#comment-348 Another point from me - "Put some astronaut architect to mentor them towards innovation" Another point from me – “Put some astronaut architect to mentor them towards innovation”

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]]> By: Davi Salles http://codeanthem.latchbabies.com/blog/2010/04/how-to-keep-crappy-programmers/comment-page-1/#comment-329 Davi Salles Wed, 28 Apr 2010 18:28:22 +0000 http://www.codeanthem.com/blog/?p=196#comment-329 The same is true for almost all intellectual jobs, and now that online communication is almost better than presence communication it might be true to jobs which are much less technologic related. But human kind is still short sighted, we remember only the industrial revolution and fordism, where people were actually used as machinery and not as brainpower, in that case 8 hours of work is 33% more productive than 6 hours. The truth is back in the old days, when workers got the right to work 8 hours/day we were much less productive, now, labour is much more productive and we work the same 8 hour/day. We consume more, sure, but i really thing that general happiness would be increased with an increase of free time (which can also be productive, because intellectual jobs normally tends to have workers who love what they do, and use free time to improve themselves). Great article! Davi Salles The same is true for almost all intellectual jobs, and now that online communication is almost better than presence communication it might be true to jobs which are much less technologic related. But human kind is still short sighted, we remember only the industrial revolution and fordism, where people were actually used as machinery and not as brainpower, in that case 8 hours of work is 33% more productive than 6 hours.

The truth is back in the old days, when workers got the right to work 8 hours/day we were much less productive, now, labour is much more productive and we work the same 8 hour/day. We consume more, sure, but i really thing that general happiness would be increased with an increase of free time (which can also be productive, because intellectual jobs normally tends to have workers who love what they do, and use free time to improve themselves).

Great article!

Davi Salles

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