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My Personal Creed of Employment

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Re: My Personal Creed of Employment

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post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When people talk of playing a “game” in regard to any social obligation - especially when they admit that the playing of the game is largely indistinguishable from earnest ethical behavior - they are telling on themselves, not their environment. They are saying they view their obligations and the attitude of their interlocutors as artifice and sincerity as idiocy. They expect constant, low-level deception from their…

I mean I hate to break it to you, but there is an undercurrent of mentality among everyone that is: people will sell you out if it means their job is on the line. No amount of friendship, interaction, or skill level of yours will come into play. When it's either them or you, they side with themselves (or the majority) every time. I stopped playing being the good employee and just started viewing everything as a means…

Thanks for breaking it to me. I think my theory of mind is more considered, though.

Re: My Personal Creed of Employment

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post #34

Found many of the points helpful. Does anyone know what "Don’t rewrite. Go to the problems." would mean? There wasn't a way to contact the author. Because I think rewriting is essential in a lot of cases.

I've never seen a big rewrite succeed. I've seen rewrites used as an escape from facing the hard problems of an existing system, and I'm as guilty of that as anyone. This point is a reminder to myself to address the problems of the existing system rather than avoid them with a rewrite. "Face the problems" might have been clearer, but this point is inspired by a time where, in hindsight, I should have got up from my d…

Thank you, "Face the problems" makes it clear. I think the point of going to the problems and dealing with legacy systems and people to sort it is important enough to be a separate advice itself.
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