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Ignore It For Long Enough And It Will Definitely Go Away
Dealing with management ideas, HR events, and low value think-ins in modern day software engineering.
That old adage “if you ignore something long enough then it will go away” was something I followed quite strictly in my now long passed salad days.
That beautiful carefree period between sixth form and finishing the PhD thing (a.k.a. playing a lot of Netrek and staying up all night on MUDs) or, more specifically, before I accidentally got involved with the Grand Game of Software Engineering and was forced, against my will, to at least gesture toward being a grown up.
You know, the paying the bills thing, not letting them stack up too much, not borrowing money from people¹, making sure you send the right birthday and Christmas cards, letting people down gently and not ignoring them when you just don’t like them, answering the phone (especially to people you really just don’t want to talk to), not ignoring problems as they don’t go away on their own — they just get worse, and all the other things that life makes you think you should be doing, but really don’t really matter at all in the grand scheme of things².
Busywork for the faux-responsibility indoctrinated, if you ask me.
Morrissey, strangely enough, again, put it best. And very succinctly too.
