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Re:Managing Difficult Software Engineers by jeremyjh on Thursday August 17, 2023 @10:58AM (#37162713)
Some people are motivated by a sense of professional responsibility. Others are not, thats true. I prefer to work with the former.
Re:Managing Difficult Software Engineers by Draiken on Thursday August 17, 2023 @11:49AM (#37163528)
That's a big mischaracterization of what I wrote. No, it's not a binary choice between professional or not professional. This kind of simplification is exactly the type of harm the original article reinforces.

If you wanna tout around "professionalism", at least explain to all of us what that entails in your world view. Because, for me, someone that does what they're paid to do is professional with or without a blind sense of loyalty to "the organization".