The Most Unbelievable Workplace Courses

The most sub-optimal approach to soft skills indoctrination possible.

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It comes as no surprise in the modern age of the Grand Game of Software Engineering that we’re all continually engaged in beating back the slowly creeping miasma of busywork.

Usually this comes in the form of excessive process, a personal bugbear of my own, but it can also crop up as a result of populist intrusions into what is in effect our own back yard.

For example:

• Those that continually rewrite the same code over and over again and just rename it to something sexy sounding to make it sound way cooler than it actually is.
  (FinTech)
• Those that try and empty your bank balance in the name of something that sounds like it should be useful but after many years is devoid of every single proposed use case aside from fraud.
  (Web3, Blockchain, NFTs, …)
• And those that leave their projects without documentation so everything just has to be written from scratch, again.
  (JavaScript influencers, Java programmers and their immense object based monoliths of terror, proto-managers who hope never to see a line of code ever again, and CTOs who are “keeping their hand in”, as it were)

Generally — busywork, box ticking, and non-specific time wasting exercises come from…