← Back to context

Comment by cool_dude85

6 years ago

Now ask any engineer in the US if they have the power to replace management that perpetuates bad practices.

10 comments

cool_dude85

Reply
shaftoe  6 years ago

They do. It's called finding another job.

  • wizzwizz4  6 years ago

    Birling: […] So I refused. Said I couldn't consider it. We were paying the usual rates and if they didn't like those rates, they could go and work somewhere else. It's a free country, I told them.

    Eric: It isn't if you can't go and work somewhere else.

    — J. B. Priestley

    Not everyone is in a position to find another job. And what do you do if the best place you can work is still rubbish? What if you're an ISP tech?

    • mushbino  6 years ago

      An ISP tech? Just learn to code and then bounce from job to job to job until you find one with a good manager.

      Okay, sarcasm aside; I've worked for many different tech companies and good managers are exceptionally rare and there is no pressure from the top to change that, and pressure from the bottom doesn't work. There is, however, a lot of pressure to not fire or demote managers as it looks bad for the management above them.

    • mmm_grayons  6 years ago

      One is not forced to spend his life working as an ISP tech. I attended a community college for a few years where most people were learning new skills precisely because they didn't like the job or often the industry in which they worked. If ISP tech work was horrible and everyone left, employers would be forced to make it less horrible.

  • cool_dude85  6 years ago

    Well, you were able to solve the problem of bad union reps at the same time. Two birds with one stone, good job.