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How To Behave At a Software Company?
dawilcox writes "I'm a recent grad and am going to begin work at a software company. I want to make a good impression on my boss and coworkers. I know that performance is usually tracked, but there are also innate personality traits of good software developers that bosses just want to have around. What are those personality traits? What should I be trying to do in order to make a good impression on the people at my work?" (Appropriate side question: What behavior traits would you like your co-workers to exhibit?)
My god... Even that smells horrendous! If you ever lived in a small town you'd know. Getting launched into the sun might be a better alternative.
Or choosing to fly Qantas?
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Who said that I was going to use it against them later? Sure, it helps me understand what's going on, but if I leverage the information outright then I become a loudmouth and lose their trust.
Perhaps I wasn't very clear - All I'm interested in is getting the job done and helping others get the job done. I do them favors, they do me favors, and never at the expense of a third party. Period. As paranoid as my original post seemed to all of you, your projections of me are doubly paranoid. I'm not a scheming career climber looking for recognition. I'm about getting the job done right, not about schmoozing and bullshit. How hard is that to understand?
You know its a pretty a bad day when you can't even accept that an employee should show up.
In this recession I think finding such a quality wont be a problem. All those who had those problems were probably the first to be shit-canned and will not repeat the same mistake.
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I prefer antiperspirant to avoid developing smells in the first place rather than simply trying to mask them..
Too bad antiperspirant actually has the effect of gluing dying skin cells to your armpits in a way that is difficult to remove even with soap, causing you to smell like rotting flesh covered up with perfume. You can't smell the attar of death because you're acclimated to it.
I have never smelled better than I do now since I stopped using any product, and simply wash myself and put on clean clothes every morning. Sometimes I shave my armpits in the middle of summer, because I have a lot of hair, and I sweat a lot.
Not sweating is not healthy.
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The correct way to approach this is to help people clean up their messes, just as long as they are willing to watch and listen open-mindedly as you patiently explain where they went wrong.
Though my original intent was a little tongue in cheek, this one actually is important. Cleaning up after people once, is a great way to make sure that person never needs to be responsible for their own mistakes.
When people respect you, then they will listen to your advice.
This is 100% correct, but people don't respect their tools, and by cleaning up after someone, you are just acting like a tool to be used. Most people will respect you more if they have to be in your shoes and understand the work that you do. By make people responsible for their own actions, such as the action of not listening to the advice they are given, before they make a mistake, they are more likely to respect your future decisions. By cleaning up after them instead of making them clean up their own mess, the only thing they learn is that they can keep making messes and someone will clean them up.
If you want to be successful, do good quality work, and do not get stepped on. If your boss can't take it when you stand up for yourself, the worst thing they can do is force you to take the opportunity to find a better boss.
It was weird, in America they have this whole thing about individualism and being an individual. Turns out that means something completely different from what it sounds like. It comes with an evaluation of how much (WTF!) of an individual you are. The view seems to be that since everyone has opportunity to make a lot of money or excel in some other way, we should honor those who do so because they are the true individuals, giving the word individualism a whole new meaning. It follows that those who do not excel need to recognize that and pay deference to those who do excel. This is where leadership comes in. In America leadership means conforming to your place in society. So a follower displays leadership when recognizing that he is expected to follow and then doing everything possible to please the (actual) leader. So American individualism and leadership actually means top-down hero worship. I was completely confused by how they were using the word leadership until I figured out what it really means. This isn't how Americans like to explain these terms, but from my outside perspective it is what they are talking about when they use them, and that is why I figured you were serious. :)