I manage a whole team of engineers. Last month, some C-level asshole with an MBA told a bunch of developers, to our faces, that our volunteer-run hackathons that we operate for the general public should instead be the general public contributing code to us directly.
We run those programs to build good will and help train new developers into the field. And this suit wants to milk them for shitty code we can’t even use (legally). This is in an industry which continues to get massive layoffs.
This isn’t his first bad idea. The others include removing perks, changing our department name three times in a year, and general fuckery of priorities.
I manage a whole team of engineers. Last month, some C-level asshole with an MBA told a bunch of developers, to our faces, that our volunteer-run hackathons that we operate for the general public should instead be the general public contributing code to us directly.
We run those programs to build good will and help train new developers into the field. And this suit wants to milk them for shitty code we can’t even use (legally). This is in an industry which continues to get massive layoffs.
This isn’t his first bad idea. The others include removing perks, changing our department name three times in a year, and general fuckery of priorities.
So yeah, as a boss, I’m absolutely checked out.
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I hope the crumbling job market for programmers will make those people look elsewhere.
I hope it convinces white-collar workers that unions are a good thing for everyone.
Nothing ol’ Papa John can’t fix!