Comment by hansmayer
1 month ago
Sorry but what is your point? I feel like you got offended by identifying yourself in it, but did not really understand it. My point being, as a non-engineering manager, you can be great at 1) approving holidays 2) doing a bit of project management 3) doing formal 1:1s . But it does not mean much because you don´t understand the work being done and you are just doing performative actions, e.g. busywork. Or we just say, f*ck it, let MBAs and scrum masters keep running our critical engineering businesses and at the end of the day the doors fall off of Boeing airplanes and astronauts end up spending 9 months instead of 9 days in space.
Only an engineer with 30 years of experience can tell that a Mustang is better than a Model T /s
Why the /s? You're mixing apples and oranges I am afraid. Being a consumer of some product, is not the same as engineering the product. So you have the latest iPhone, good for you - still does not make you an engineer, nor do you have a clue what goes into designing, conceptualising and building a product. And yes, those of us with a bit more experience in the field, remember the times when engineering was done by people who had passion for it, not people desperate to make a career and income upgrade through bullshitting in meetings. For engineering a great product, as we can see with the great entshittification of pretty much everything today, Boeing being the most dangerous example, it's not just that the performative workers are being a drag on productivity and profitability, they are now also endangering everyone. I sure hope some idiot MBA does not come up with an idea of a medical PO or scrum master.
One does not need 20 years of programming experience to identify and fire a shitty employee that coasts by constantly asking others for help with their job. There are tons of bad programmers just like there are tons of people bad at other jobs. Those employees are often a net negative for the team by constantly wasting someone elses' time.
On a side note, your constant whining about "MBAs" and "scrum masters"... it does not make you sound like a professional or reasonable person. This black-white view of world, that "all MBAs are bad". Whoa.
(Just because I know where you will take it: (sadly?) I dont have an MBA. I am also not a scrum master)
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