Bad Faith In The Management Game
It’s not just the engineers, it’s our opponents too who get carried along and completely overwhelmed with a false sense of purpose.
I wrote earlier in the year about how some software engineers in the Grand Game can develop a kind of existential bad faith when it comes to performing their day to day tasks. A result of which being that they can easily become just as difficult an obstacle to overcome in actually getting work done as those that occupy the vast banal hierarchies of management and HR in the modern corporate world.
The developer friendly fire that we sometimes encounter from these promotion driven merch wearers who happily comply with insidious corporate doctrine, however, can be fairly easily defeated with hefty targeted doses of cynicism — reminding them that loyalty is a myth, the longer they stay with the company the further their pay has been eroded, and that no-one ever lies on their deathbed wishing they’d completed that sprint on time.
Unfortunately though, when dealing with the “true believers” in this twilight zone of corporate management, introducing a dose of reality isn’t always effective as often the selection process for these positions involves a kind of Cyberman type upgrade where the brain is firmly left at the door, the company name is injected Johnny Mnemonic style into what’s left of basic cognitive…
