Re:Hard-to-swallow truths they won't tell you about software...
by alphager on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @08:23AM
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Strongly disagree. The smaller the company is, the more political it is. Because now there's no layer to appeal to or to inject sanity; it's the way of the owner or the highway. Being on the right side of the owner is the most important thing and if you're on the right side, you can be as incompetent as you want (see: son of the owner is an idiot, but is the second in command).
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Re:Hard-to-swallow truths they won't tell you about software...
by dasil003 on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @09:52AM
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Sorry you’ve been burned by nepotism and incompetent leadership. That’s not the root of politics though. Politics is about decision making processes and power dynamics that emerge in large groups. This becomes difficult regardless of competence because power and control become decoupled due the bandwidth limits of single humans, and so the methods of influence and direction become more manipulative and/or more draconian.