you want sales guys to be as stupid as potential customers.

But also, when they 'think' of something, it's basically your fault of their idea doesn't work, even if you told them why it wouldn't work.

I had a ... VP of Marketing, basically, once suggest to me that I 'implement the blockchain' ... into our entire PostgreSQL system.

... These people are an idiot nobility, its just their thought patterns that are inbred, this time.

Oh interesting I thought the job of a programmer was to be paid to fix AI slop vibe code made by clueless management who would have done better by coming to you and asking you to think in the first place.

Uuh I feel you, my older job got worse and worse until it had up to 25 meetings a week... All bullshit.

When I complained it was first brushed off as not true, then I screenshotted a week with 25 meetings (senior software dev, but not manager) and that got some attention finally and actions were taken to reduce the number of meetings.

So they started with "stand up meetings" doesn't count, so those 5 meetings does not count ... (So down to 20, right?) Because they are not meetings, right? Stand up Meetings...

And all mandatory of course, except they said they were not, miss obe and you'd get problems and childish lectures about corpo culture and crap.

Can't make that shit up. And yeah, people running on hot air love corporate speak and corporate everything ugh, probably they think they're finally productive or something.

/Rant off!

I'm no longer there, good luck to you!

Not surprised. Sales is the art of presenting an emotional call to agreement and making people think they got there intellectually. Corporate bullshit is very similar

"The bureacracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureacracy."

Or, the longer you're employed, more like. 😜

Most of us can see this for ourselves, but anecdotes don't move the needle. So, yes, studies with numbers and charts make a difference, sometimes.

“Study finds graduates of programs that require colouring inside the lines do well at colouring inside the lines at work.”

All of those sound structured backgrounds that apply fixed definitions and derivatives based on that. They lack a developed sense of creativity outside the rigidity of their domain and so, are pretty much biological LLMs after a decade of purposed training and instructions.

Not a single hard science occupation in engineering or technical aspects? Yeah that's a shit biased study.

Education ≠ intelligence. To quote Berkeley, "Few men think; yet all will have opinions."

fuck. i instinctively downvote scott adams even though he's dead

Oh man, I was part of a small non profit for years. I loved it.

I quit once they decided they needed a mission statement, because the enshittification had begun. And now instead of doing work and standing on their own, they are on social media grandstanding for clout and begging for money... because it was no longer about doing good work and helping people, it was about getting a fatter paycheck. And you get that by leaning into the corporate bullshit marketing crap.

I’m a programmer. I’m literally paid to think. The number of times I’ve had to attend a corporate wide event and been asked to just not think about the shit they are spewing is unacceptable–and every time the sales guys just lap it all up.

Managers love sycophants, then throw them under the bus in a bad quarter. See, good quarters are good management, bad quarters are bad workers.

I believe you meant to say:

Let's double-click on this; it feels more like a parallel trajectory than a direct-impact lever.

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