5 Jan
2012
5 Jan
'12
9:32 p.m.
On Jan 5, 2012, at 1:55 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:
The trend I've noticed in our clients is that bad engineers get promoted to management
because someone has the dangerously stupid idea that they can do less damage there. You
know where they might actually do less damage? The mail room.
Granted, we usually work for our clients *because* they're dysfunctional, so I may be
seeing the effects of selection bias.
- Dave
Not hard at
all. Just filter for the ones over 40 who expect a
decent salary. Maybe they've already moved to upper management.
ROFL! Yes!
And that crazy idea that being in "management" (overhead positions that
require no real brainpower) as opposed to creating things has really crippled our
industry. We have a crop of highly talented, interested programmers who are bored to
tears in meetings, and the work they SHOULD be doing is being done by PFYs who
wouldn't know elegant simplicity if it walked up and pinched them on the ass.