From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Oct 5 04:55:43 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D090E2C8E1 for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2017 04:55:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from srs0=ozwq=be=mail.sermon-archive.info=doug@sermon-archive.info) Received: from mail.sermon-archive.info (sermon-archive.info [71.177.216.148]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDE3783A2E for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2017 04:55:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from srs0=ozwq=be=mail.sermon-archive.info=doug@sermon-archive.info) Received: from [10.0.1.251] (mini [10.0.1.251]) by mail.sermon-archive.info (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3y70p04hMjz2fjvK; Wed, 4 Oct 2017 21:55:36 -0700 (PDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 10.3 \(3273\)) Subject: Re: [OT] Why did "enterprise" crap seem to win? (re: Virtualization, Java, Microsoft, Outsourcing, etc.)... From: Doug Hardie In-Reply-To: <20171005062919.88a3db9c.freebsd@edvax.de> Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2017 21:55:36 -0700 Cc: Alejandro Imass , FreeBSD Questions Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <65DFB7B0-B25E-401A-B678-14B2E640598C@mail.sermon-archive.info> References: <20171005062919.88a3db9c.freebsd@edvax.de> To: Polytropon X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3273) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.99.2 at mail X-Virus-Status: Clean X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2017 04:55:43 -0000 > On 4 October 2017, at 21:29, Polytropon wrote: >=20 >=20 > Reason 3 - three! three reasons! - is social appeal. Just imagine > you're actually understanding your work, and you do it better > than others, then you're not a "team player", because you "make > the other branch offices look bad and lazy". That's why it is > not encouraged to improve things. >=20 > Example from reality: I once worked for a shop where one person > got a high wage for creating timesheet templates. Manually. She > basically entered years, months, days and hours manually into a > PC as if it was a typewriter. With additional microformatting. > Every day. Every month. For years. When one of her coworkers > suggested to automate the task basically by piping the output > of "ncal" into a little awk script (he was a Linux person), > he got yelled at for being "hostile to coworkers" and "threatening > the staff". That's what you get when you use your brain. >=20 > PC on, brain off. I have been in the programming and system development business since the = mid 60's. The more things change, the more they stay the same. Nothing = is new other than the acronyms. These reasons also hold for senior = managers. Every senior manager who was competent was fired for showing = up the others. The more competent, the quicker they vanish. Once a = manager who was rewarded with a trip (including family) to one of the = Caribbean islands came back to go to jail for the illegal activities he = did to win that award. He also cost the company a fortune is lost = revenue. There are many other examples I have witnessed. It will never = change. -- Doug