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Re:Managing Difficult Software Engineers by nerdchum on Thursday August 17, 2023 @08:57AM (#37160857)
Ive found way more difficult managers than difficult employees in my career.

Difficult managers need to be terminated as well.

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Re:Managing Difficult Software Engineers by arpa on Thursday August 17, 2023 @09:21AM (#37161145)
what do you mean it's an interactive system of shitiness?
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Re:Managing Difficult Software Engineers by datadrivenangel on Thursday August 17, 2023 @10:47AM (#37162526)
At a certain point the rot starts from the head.

Amazing how a few bad senior managers can allow for so much bad behavior.

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Re:Managing Difficult Software Engineers by thelastparadise on Thursday August 17, 2023 @03:05PM (#37166452)
They're harder to fire. Sometimes the org going belly-up is the consequence.
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Re:Managing Difficult Software Engineers by nine_zeros on Thursday August 17, 2023 @12:38PM (#37164361)
> Ive found way more difficult managers than difficult employees in my career.

Yep. They set the tone. And if the manager's tone is not one of honesty, the ICs will intuitively not continue to be honest. Because they intuitively know that honesty will get penalized.

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Re:Managing Difficult Software Engineers by izacus on Friday August 18, 2023 @03:38AM (#37172423)
Well... were you ever a manager to actually know that?
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