Yes yes and yes again. I've never worked anywhere where the management have been thought of highly by the ground troops - or other managers. The porblem is, I believe, that the ability to manage is seen as an innate ability - in reality, of course, it is something that can be learned and doing it well, like programming, takes a long time.
The ISO9001:2000 management system framework goes some way to addressing these things. It demands that managers manage processes and people. You can't get thois accreditation unless external auditors come in and check it for themselves. This kind of management system works pretty well, because it adds value to the company's workings.
But at the end of the day, a company that promotes sales reps on the basis of the amount of money they generate, rather than their ability to be managers, is going to end up spending more time chasing its tail trying to solve internal problems than it is working hard for the customer.
Joining the shit heap of crap animation, including Family Guy, Clerks - The Animated Series and Dilbert. At least it might leave room for something worth watching.
Matt Groening thought up The Simpsons in 15 minutes, moments before pitching it to Fox. Doesn't mean he could do it again.
I've often wondered why most open source stuff is done in C on Linux. That it's done by people who cut their teeth using C when they were weenies. Fair enough - in 2020 I'll probably be tut-tutting kids who don't use Java... There is a lot of snobbery and elitism in computing, and it's very tempting for us weenies to feel that we're not worthy. But at least, I suppose, we can still get it up.
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You pitiful piece of shit. Haven't you got anything better to do with your talents than work out ways of killing people? You devalue us all.
Yes yes and yes again. I've never worked anywhere where the management have been thought of highly by the ground troops - or other managers. The porblem is, I believe, that the ability to manage is seen as an innate ability - in reality, of course, it is something that can be learned and doing it well, like programming, takes a long time.
The ISO9001:2000 management system framework goes some way to addressing these things. It demands that managers manage processes and people. You can't get thois accreditation unless external auditors come in and check it for themselves. This kind of management system works pretty well, because it adds value to the company's workings.
But at the end of the day, a company that promotes sales reps on the basis of the amount of money they generate, rather than their ability to be managers, is going to end up spending more time chasing its tail trying to solve internal problems than it is working hard for the customer.
Joining the shit heap of crap animation, including Family Guy, Clerks - The Animated Series and Dilbert. At least it might leave room for something worth watching.
Matt Groening thought up The Simpsons in 15 minutes, moments before pitching it to Fox. Doesn't mean he could do it again.
I've often wondered why most open source stuff is done in C on Linux. That it's done by people who cut their teeth using C when they were weenies. Fair enough - in 2020 I'll probably be tut-tutting kids who don't use Java... There is a lot of snobbery and elitism in computing, and it's very tempting for us weenies to feel that we're not worthy. But at least, I suppose, we can still get it up.