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Re:Toxic Workers Are More Productive, But the Price Is High by Nasrudith on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @11:10AM (#19209011)
That depends on the management and is part of what makes a good manager. I have heard of many accounts of successful and well liked technical managers admitting their job is to be a shield to their team/abstraction layer to allow them ability to focus and explore appropriately while not being buffeted by contradictory direct commands and meetings - all while not ignoring them unduly either.

Upper management was perfectly okay with that because they had good release quality and time tables.

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Re:Toxic Workers Are More Productive, But the Price Is High by stnmtn on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @11:21AM (#19209098)
But how often do people who do the work that brings in money (in this example, the people coding the project) get a fair share of that profit?
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Re:Toxic Workers Are More Productive, But the Price Is High by chooseaname on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @12:03PM (#19209525)
Define "fair". Surely the CEO is worth 800 times what any single coder is.
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Re:Toxic Workers Are More Productive, But the Price Is High by vondur on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @12:38PM (#19209894)
I think you forgot the sarcasm tags.
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Re:Toxic Workers Are More Productive, But the Price Is High by chooseaname on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @12:55PM (#19210121)
Sometimes it's fun to leave things a little ambiguous. But, yeah, you figured it out.
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