What’s good career advice you wouldn’t want to have your name on?

Re:What’s good career advice you wouldn’t want to have your ... by JMTQp8lwXL on Thursday October 03, 2019 @11:16PM (#21154493)

What if you're 99% sure someone doesn't know what they're talking about, but there could be on shred of crucial information, you aren't privy to, since companies are sometimes large and unwieldy things, and information doesn't always flow as it should.

You could call someone out, and make a fool of yourself, if you're wrong. It would make me very hesitant to ever actually do something like this, because you never know.

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Re:What’s good career advice you wouldn’t want to have your ... by ggm on Thursday October 03, 2019 @11:50PM (#21154626)

So this is a legit thing. You don't know all the facts, there can be reasons CEO asshats say things. But there are also times you have to think hard about what you trust: do you trust your core knowledge, or do you assume they know better? Remember, CEO level people have KPI which is about shareholder benefits, not necessarily reality, or ethics.

I sat in on an 'all hands' briefing once where a CEO level guy spent 2hrs demanding we code a 3D VR shopping mall for him to sell to local stores. When I started talking about how immature the market was (this was 1994 and most people were on dialup) I got roasted. Afterwards, the CTO said he did that randomly, to get dominance, it was just how he chose to behave in a room, in order to "win". I didn't stay in that company long.

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Re:What’s good career advice you wouldn’t want to have your ... by dorgo on Friday October 04, 2019 @10:52AM (#21158280)

> What if you're 99% sure someone doesn't know what they're talking about

I hate this. I can't convince colleagues that they are wrong. And I can't push too hard as long as I'm not 100% sure. So I have to make their work for them just to proof them wrong. I think it is not a good investment to aim for 100%, at least where I work.

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