Neil Hopcroft

A digital misfit

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  2. daevid

    That is sooo true…

    Our engineers constantly place unrealistic timescales on us with ill defined requirements and the sense of optimism that a pessimist would find hard to compete with :)

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        • neilh

          Thats something I’ve never understood, ‘promoting’ good engineers into management. It has a whole number of bad effects – not least that you lose a good technologist and that they won’t have much management experience. This kind of promotion sends bad signals to other engineers, it says “The only way to progress in this organisation is to move to management”. It demonstrates that the higher strata of management don’t trust their middle management, or employees. Yet organisations everywhere keep on doing it.

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    • neilh

      Re: Hello

      Oh dear, you live in a cube farm too? Yeah, Dilbert is a little too close to the reality of that life, isn’t it? It was said that the CTO of my last company used to model his management on PHB.

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