• (cs) in reply to Jethris
    Jethris:
    Luckily, I never had to be a "third-class" programmer, but rather, mostly a "second-class" kinda guy.

    I'm also too stupid to keep my mouth shut. I would have said: 1: I met all my deadlines, right? 2: I, using iniative and adaptivity, didn't listen to the powers that be and went ahead with what I thought was right. (Just because the IT dept says the world is flat, doesn't mean it's true) 3: Just because you guys are too busy or arrogant to do what I did, doesn't mean I'm the one in the wrong. 4: Doesn't the company and it's integrity come before your little group? 5: I hear the PHB has a new opening, you applying?

    CAPTCHA: Tastey, Nobody bakes a cake as tastey as a Tastey-Kake.

    I would have opened the voice recorder application on my mobile before going into the conference room C clandestinately recording everything that was said and sent an e-mail anonymously to C-level managment afterwards.

    talk about making waves for a bunch of spineless, gutless f---s.

  • Mikko (unregistered)

    The story contains one arguable WTF (an employer optimizing company's processes without authorization) and another unarguable WTF (stealing someone's code).

    Optimizing companys processes without administration is not necessarily harmful, but it can potentially be. The choice of what is good for the company as a whole must be left to the management. It's not your god-given duty to optimize company, since immediate optimizations can lead to long-term losses - one step forward, two steps backward.

    For example, as others have pointed out, installing automation script may leave people without work. You can generally criticize this kind of attitude as a kind of neoluddist "broken window fallacy", but not in the specific context of a single company - a company's goal is to maximize long-term profits, not long-term ones.

    For example, even if the people aren't immediately laid off, there will be a sense of tension in the air since everyone is feeling generally useless. All this leads to lowered work morale. If I were an employer, I would first try to reposition the workers, and automate their job afterwards - this would cost only a constant amount of (short-term) money without having an effect on (long-term) morale.

  • hoodaticus (unregistered) in reply to cardboard box

    That's the law in Europe, but the United States does not recognize moral rights and has exempted itself from them in every international copyright treaty. The owner can claim anything he wants about it, including make up an author.

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