Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

If you're unaware of the term, teamicide, #Peopleware #DeMarcoLister use it to describe any management actions that prevent a team from forming or lead to the dissolution of a team. The premise is that developing a great software system requires a self-formed, cohesive, team. 'Self-formed' is a key, because even though DeMarco and Lister prescribe some team forming actions, they caution that management can't create a cohesive team.

One of the most important items in #Peopleware #DeMarcoLister is the list of managerial actions that are teamicidal:
- annual salary or merit reviews
- management by objectives
- praise of certain workers for extraordinary accomplishment
- awards, prizes, bonuses tied to performance
- performance measurement in almost any form

Posting this in a company local newsgroup once, invoked interest from HR. :-D

Despite all my personal interest quoting, #WorkWontLoveYouBack #SarahJaffe only has a single chapter on tech work, and many of the quotes apply to other jobs. #Peopleware #DeMarcoLister also talks about the cons that workplaces apply to get you to feel like the work is more important than it is.

"Beyond their expected loyalty to their own CV, the programmers were encouraged to consider themselves part of the family, and to work hard to pul their own weight within it" "a lot of one-upmanship about who could work longer." #WorkWontLoveYouBack #SarahJaffe

"The plethora of 'learn-to-code' boot camps are designed not as altruistic ways to get the working class into high-demand jobs[...], but to drive down the cost of [software] labor." #WorkWontLoveYouBack #SarahJaffe "Programming might be destined to be [...] Clive Thompson of Wired wrote, "the next big blue-collar job." "

Work Won't Love You Back has a quote from Molly Crabapple, "the prize is what used to be called your salary.", in regards to the gamefication of workplaces of software developers.

Learned a new word, Fauxtomation, in Work Won't Love You Back, coined by Astra Taylor for a job that human beings perform that most people assume is done by automation; it was used in the ontext of purging social media of porn and violence.

"love is too big and beautiful and grand and messy and human a thing to be wasted on a temporary fact of life like work" - how Sarah Jaffe ends Work Won't Love You Back. #bravo #greatread

Police funding in Los Angeles to be partially reallocated from the LAPD to a one-year basic income pilot for 500 single parents https://basicincometoday.com/police-funding-in-los-angeles-to-be-partially-reallocated-from-the-lapd-to-a-one-year-basic-income-pilot-for-500-single-parents/

Oil companies want you to think they’re feminist. It’s BS. https://grist.org/justice/oil-companies-not-feminist-international-womens-day/

Entire Staff of Nevada Democratic Party Quits After Democratic Socialist Slate Won Every Seat https://theintercept.com/2021/03/08/nevada-democratic-party-dsa/

Jim Crow Rises: Desperate Georgia Republicans Scurry to Pass Voting Restrictions Law https://theintercept.com/2021/03/09/georgia-republicans-voting-sb-241/

Scary reading about how much underpaid adjunct professors have replaced tenured professors at most colleges. Not only are you paying a much higher price for college these days, you are also getting a lesser education. #capitalismsucks

You should really believe Microsoft when they tell you their cloud based email is much safer than the older Exchange solution. [sic]

Fool me once, fool me twice, keep fooling me baby. I'm just a sucker for you! #MicrosoftRubes #MicrosoftSucks #dumballover

One thing you get by sneering at something as "academia" is another measure of protection [sic] against having to apply the thing to your work. It's basically anti-science and anti-knowledge. It makes one feel better about their own ignorance. #dumballover