Blowing the Whistle on the UC Berkeley Mathematics Department

Re:Blowing the Whistle on the UC Berkeley Mathematics Depart... by striking on Sunday October 11, 2015 @11:25PM (#10372360)

A software dev team requires far more one-on-one interaction between "faculty members" than teaching does (where faculty are the ones producing the software and the students are the users).

And in any case, if someone on a dev team got significantly better numbers by bucking the trends, I would be obligated to try and understand their methods and help them gain greater acceptance. It doesn't make sense to remove someone who gets results. It makes sense to integrate them.

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Re:Blowing the Whistle on the UC Berkeley Mathematics Depart... by Sven7 on Monday October 12, 2015 @12:03AM (#10372476)

Not always. I have seen cases where the most productive/well liked person on the team has got fired cause they made the wrong people look bad.

Did that turn out bad for the team? Not really. Life goes on. And sometimes its just a good learning experience for both parties.

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Re:Blowing the Whistle on the UC Berkeley Mathematics Depart... by striking on Monday October 12, 2015 @12:11AM (#10372504)

That sounds more like a testament to the sociopathic nature of business in practice, rather than the ideal way to carry it out.

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