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Fire your best people

Points for using Office Space.  Fire your best people…reward the lazy ones.  via Reddit.

There's a longstanding aggravation about the guy who goes first dashing out awful code, but being a hero to management and the business while the maintainers coming behind the hero are goats for being slower working with the bad code.  Life isn't fair -- unless you count the times you dropped off bad code on someone else.


Posted 09-25-2007 8:17 AM by Jeremy D. Miller

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Donn Felker wrote re: Fire your best people
on 09-25-2007 11:02 AM

I could not agree more.

Vikas Kerni wrote re: Fire your best people
on 09-25-2007 2:57 PM

Lazy ones do get hard time at start of project by Management. But once they are spoted, they are awarded with complex assignments, where as fast ones only get the routines programming assignment. (Some people may not consider complex assignments as awards).

vikasnetdev.blogspot.com/.../fire-you-best-people.html

Vikas Kerni wrote re: Fire your best people
on 09-27-2007 2:17 PM

This post reminded me of my old post

Why are all great developers not the best Architects and vice-versa?

vikasnetdev.blogspot.com/.../why-are-all-great-developers-not-best.html

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