Re:One way a builder culture can fail
by lazyasciiart on Friday December 03, 2021 @12:43AM
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Because if you're the expert on X, you can either stand up and agree with everyone that building X is not the right decision, or you can smile and nod and say yea, we should totally build our own X, it's a great idea. If you say no, it won't happen.
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On one side I would say that this the most authentic course of action.
But that doesn't suddenly shift all the responsibility to the expert. The power relation and degree of freedom between those who hire and those who get hired is often asymmetric. The ones who hire usually are the ones who make the decisions, so they should be held accountable for those.
Now of course if the expert does have a sufficient degree of freedom then they become complicit.
and they loose the job they were just hired for.
because the more likely situation is that the newly hired expert on X is the only one realizing that X is wrong for this case.
Re:One way a builder culture can fail
by ed_elliott_asc on Friday December 03, 2021 @03:19AM
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If you know you were being hired for one specific task shouldn’t you have talked about the fit before you start? I would say that is reasonable.
It's not always reasonable, because in the general case you don't know until later right? You discover the issues at some point when already working. Also you're implying that there is no economic dependence which is not always the case.
Re:One way a builder culture can fail
by lazyasciiart on Friday December 03, 2021 @03:25AM
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The ones who lie to keep their job are the ones who get called 'charlatan'. Seems fair.
except they are most likely only being asked if they can build X (which they can) and not if X is appropriate here. so at the most they are lying by omission, but more realistically they are opting not to become a whistleblower.