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Re:Organization Probably Doesn't Want to Improve Things by flagrant_taco on Sunday October 08, 2023 @08:33AM (#37809900)
Teams can actually function well and have no problems for periods of time. I those cases you would almost certainly break that by firing the manager.

I think everyone would agree that yes-people are useless for a team, but if you find yourself surrounded by them you have to ask why. Either you hired poorly, or more likely the way you treat you team and/or company creates a culture of fear and dishonesty.

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Re:Organization Probably Doesn't Want to Improve Things by pdimitar on Sunday October 08, 2023 @09:01AM (#37810076)
Who is that "you" who hired poorly? I am a programmer, I did not hire anyone.

My comment from much above, to which many people replied, was from the point of view of a working programmer.

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Re:Organization Probably Doesn't Want to Improve Things by flagrant_taco on Sunday October 08, 2023 @09:49AM (#37810427)
I was just assuming you were talking about managers not independent contributors. The "you" would be the person with the authority to fire though, as a working programmer would have absolutely no power to fire anyone saying there are no problems.
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