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Agreed

Can you offer a substantial rebuttal? Or are you in the same camp as the OP whose opinions are axioms that are above questioning or debate?

What is your definition of fascist? If it includes dictatorial control of the economy, suppression of dissenting opinions, and aggressive persecution of political opposition, Id ha…

Yes, a good manager shields the team from distractions and lets them focus. I know I sound anti-mgr but I’m not. I’ve had some rly good one who gave us autonomy, trusted us, but al…

I agree, it was a calculated risk. Without getting into the deets I was confident it wouldn’t introduce any major issues. In fact NOT upgrading had resulted in problems that affect…

When there is a lot to do and you are understaffed the highest priority things are usually obvious. For instance, we keep getting repeated requests for X from dev, let’s automate i…

We were assigned a manager. Who immediately tried to bring in his folks from a prior job (they weren’t a good fit), force us to adopt his preferred tools (with no consideration for…

If said teammate decides to follow through on his idea without your explicit permission, transfer him to another team ASAP (without his approval). No teammate can show initiative, …

Your first paragraph laments the expansion of government control and surveillance triggered by 9/11 (which I agree with), but in your next, you use pejoratives to identify people w…