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Re:How do you tell managers that having good developers is a... by kabdib on Saturday January 18, 2014 @10:15PM (#7083242)
Go over the manager's head. If that company is having trouble keeping senior staff, there are reasons for it and those reasons are probably not secret. I've done this, with mixed success, but have never had a problem with retaliation. You might be surprised how welcome your skip-level feedback is.

Oh, and if your skip-level manager doesn't know who you are (and ideally, his manager), then you either need to work on visibility, or you're not as senior or as pivotal as you might think.

Be polite. Tell them that you thought flexible hours were part of the deal.

And then walk. Moving to a new team in the same company is probably just as good, if you can swing it.

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Re:How do you tell managers that having good developers is a... by QuantumGood on Sunday January 19, 2014 @12:43AM (#7083513)
Beyond the straightforward good sense of this, it's a negotiation, and you should "talk to all the players on the opposing party's team" as you gather information.
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