Every story and comment from the Hacker News API, in a layout borrowed from 2001.
A comment on Organization Probably Doesn't Want to Improve Things. Parent comment
I've seen way too many PMs and middle managers twiddling their thumbs and just inventing tasks and reports just so they are busy and are not fired.
How do I know? We had some of them go to a conference once; they were all gone for two weeks.
Work was going faster and smoother.
And that's not a single anecdote, it's supported by many other programmers.
Truth is, nepotism and "we've been buddies at the uni" is happening much more than you are willing to admit.
There are no comments on this comment yet.
I've seen way too many PMs and middle managers twiddling their thumbs and just inventing tasks and reports just so they are busy and are not fired.
How do I know? We had some of them go to a conference once; they were all gone for two weeks.
Work was going faster and smoother.
And that's not a single anecdote, it's supported by many other programmers.
Truth is, nepotism and "we've been buddies at the uni" is happening much more than you are willing to admit.