Comments on: What The Office teaches us http://rc3.org/2009/11/17/what-the-office-teaches-us/ Rafe Colburn on software development (and other topics) Wed, 23 May 2012 22:44:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Medley http://rc3.org/2009/11/17/what-the-office-teaches-us/comment-page-1/#comment-7186 Medley Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:25:02 +0000 http://rc3.org/?p=10312#comment-7186 <p>Concur with Scott!</p> Concur with Scott!

]]> By: Scott Parkerson http://rc3.org/2009/11/17/what-the-office-teaches-us/comment-page-1/#comment-7185 Scott Parkerson Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:13:11 +0000 http://rc3.org/?p=10312#comment-7185 <p>This is the most depressing thing I've read in a long time about corporate culture. That said, I'm glad I read it because reflecting upon my own position in the Gervais Principle (probably somewhere between "loser" and "clueless") prompted me to think long and hard about the effort that I am "throwing in" to attempt to change my own development team's culture at my workplace.</p> <p>The hard question is: at the end of the day, does any of this change <em>really</em> matter? I'd like to think that it does, but the sociopaths in charge probably don't care, and the folks at the bottom that are doing the minimal amount of effort will probably see it as something that makes them do more work, which isn't necessarily a good thing from their point of view. The clueless in the middle will probably love what I'm doing, because "it's all for the best of the company, etc."</p> <p>Bottom line for me is that I need to remember the most important thing: after I've done my work for the day, go home and enjoy the rest of life -- the stuff that <em>really</em> matters.</p> This is the most depressing thing I’ve read in a long time about corporate culture. That said, I’m glad I read it because reflecting upon my own position in the Gervais Principle (probably somewhere between “loser” and “clueless”) prompted me to think long and hard about the effort that I am “throwing in” to attempt to change my own development team’s culture at my workplace.

The hard question is: at the end of the day, does any of this change really matter? I’d like to think that it does, but the sociopaths in charge probably don’t care, and the folks at the bottom that are doing the minimal amount of effort will probably see it as something that makes them do more work, which isn’t necessarily a good thing from their point of view. The clueless in the middle will probably love what I’m doing, because “it’s all for the best of the company, etc.”

Bottom line for me is that I need to remember the most important thing: after I’ve done my work for the day, go home and enjoy the rest of life — the stuff that really matters.

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