By bloid
via lbrandy.com
Published: Oct 07 2008 / 00:17
Let’s say you are a boss of some developers. And you’ve got this one guy who is way too motivated. He is making everyone else look bad. You want to force him to quit. I have no idea why you’d want to get rid of your one motivated good programmer, but you boss-type guys pull this kind of crazy stuff all the time, right? Anyway, let me explain how you, the boss, can suck the ever-loving life from this programmer and make him hate his job.
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planetmcd replied ago:
This article indicates bad pay and subpar equipment won't demotivate a good programmer. Unless your work is so f&*(*( interesting that there is no way to replace it, a good programmer will go find a job that is interesting, pays reasonable (or has a high payoff potential e.g. startup), and has reasonable equipment on which to work.
To believe otherwise is foolish. If you have a talented programmer that you undervalue in such a fashion, it's only a matter of time before they figure out that you take them for a sucker. That is pretty demotivating.
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