RE: Has the industry gone insane?

["Leonard C. Porrello" <Leonard -dot- Porrello -at- SoleraTec -dot- com>]

If it's any consolation, this is in the news today: "It pays to play
nice, Harvard study says":
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080319/ap_on_sc/nice_guys_1

Leonard C. Porrello
SoleraTec LLC
www.soleratec.com

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Haven't quite gotten threates to THAT level yet.

Current manager has (I paraphrase) gotten to the point where she lays
down "8 different ways you can get fired" just in the new hire
orientation.

Oye.

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On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 2:30 PM, Elizabeth Labine <elabine -at- aurora -dot- com>
wrote:
> Colin,
>
> I worked for just such a company that had evolved into hiring an
abusive
> process manager - I finally quit <almost the entire company turned
over>
> and I'm now happily ensconced for almost two years in a fabulous
> company.  It won't change, it will only get worse - look and leave!
At
> one point, the VP of Engineering called me and the director of SW
> Engineering into a room and confronted me with the statement that he
> heard I was unhappy and going to leave - he told me that if I ever
did,
> he would see to it that I never worked in the valley (I'm in Silicon
> Valley) again...I QUIT!  And I am working and in demand if I should
> choose to leave this company...leave...
>
> Betty
>
>
>
>
>
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> [mailto:techwr-l-bounces+elabine=aurora -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com] On
> Behalf Of ct
> Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 12:43 PM
> To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: Has the industry gone insane?
>
> It's a trend I'm seeing more and more. "The return of
> Micro-management" and "death-by-committee". The last two companies
> I've contracted at have been overburdened by the syndromes. The tower
> in which I currently toil is bad enough to extract me from the Doc
> Writing department and place me under a manager who believes threats
> are the best form of motivation.
>
> I have no review process.
> I have no style guides.
> I have only 2-4 hours of XP meetings and a very tedious, slow-moving
> "approval by 'track-changes' system" in which to get a document to the
> good enough stage.
>
> About to throw my hands up and become a monk.
> Calligraphy by candlelight is better than this!
>
> Suggestions?
>
> -Collin
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