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Re:Boeing's Managerial Revolution Created the 737 Max Disaster by vkou on Saturday September 21, 2019 @08:00PM (#21038711)
Someone having absolute power over you leads to reprehensible behavior, and the most common expression of that power in the modern age is the manager-employee relationship.
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Re:Boeing's Managerial Revolution Created the 737 Max Disaster by HeyLaughingBoy on Saturday September 21, 2019 @09:14PM (#21039004)
Oh, be serious!

No manager has "absolute power" over you. At a maximum they have the power to fire you. As a software developer in this economy there are far more important things to worry about.

And yeah, I'm a manager!

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Re:Boeing's Managerial Revolution Created the 737 Max Disaster by kevingadd on Saturday September 21, 2019 @09:40PM (#21039090)
Yeah, firing you so you can't pay rent and don't have health care isn't much power at all, is it?

And withholding a reference for their next job hunt certainly doesn't do anything either.

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Re:Boeing's Managerial Revolution Created the 737 Max Disaster by HeyLaughingBoy on Sunday September 22, 2019 @11:35AM (#21041822)
The OP said "absolute power" not "any power" so let's at least get that straight.

Nice goalpost moving, though.

And TBH, I don't know anyone who uses their current job as reference for the next job: probably wouldn't go over well. I still have people I last worked with 10 years ago using me as a reference.

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Re:Boeing's Managerial Revolution Created the 737 Max Disaster by shams93 on Sunday September 22, 2019 @01:25AM (#21039827)
Yeah in modern capitalism simple failure to "fit in" often leads to death for a free country you have to toe the line so tight it breaks your feet but you better not complain lol
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