SPUG: Re: Disillusioned Programmers (Was: Does Perl Scale?

Ken McGlothlen mcglk at artlogix.com
Tue Aug 14 06:55:34 CDT 2001


"Richard Anderson" <Richard.Anderson at raycosoft.com> writes:

| "Learning to stop caring about what I was doing" seems like a professional
| cop-out to me.

Not at all.  It's a coping strategy.  What I mean is that if I get emotionally
invested in the project, it becomes more difficult for me to go along with and
support bad management decisions.  It doesn't mean that I become any less
professional---it just means that I don't put *emotional* energy into the
project, is all.

| Few managers like working with subordinates that are smarter than they are
| and make a point of reminding them of it.

Yep.

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