On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 11:23:32 +0000 (UTC), A.Sloman@cs.bham.ac.uk
(Aaron Sloman) wrote:
[big snip]
>Jonathan L Cunningham writes:
>[JLC]
>> Similarly, if I ran into the "oops, not implemented" I'd probably stop
>> and implement (all of) it.
>
>No doubt.
>
>And thereby put your colleagues in the other software department out
>of a job!
No, no, if they can afford to spend time writing *my* code, it must
mean they've finished writing their own. So naturally they are
redundant! And if I take twice as long as them, it must be because
what I'm doing is harder, so I deserve a pay rise too[1]. And possibly
a promotion.
If you are a competent programmer but your salary is too low, there is
an obvious corollary[3].
Jonathan
[1] I hope everyone *instantly* recognised this as PHB[2] thinking,
i.e. perfectly normal practice.
[2] Dilbert, for anyone not familiar with the acronym.
[3] Me, cynical? What makes you think that?
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