> My job isn’t to use git, it’s to write specialist software.
This is true on so many other levels too. My job isn't to be an AWS expert, VIM master, Visual Studio ninja, Unix professor, et. al.
My job is to make the customer happy. That is it. If the customer is happy, my project managers are happy, the executives are happy, the investors are happy. When all of your bosses are happy, you can get away with absolute murder. No one gives you shit about anything. Production went down because you fucked up? No big deal - that was like the first time in 18 months we had any problems, and the customer can't even see these things through all the magical features get to play with day-to-day. Need to take the entire afternoon to play overwatch because [arbitrary fuck you reason abc]? No one cares as long as you didn't have a scheduled meeting. In this realm, your mind is free to explore side projects without fear of reproach or guilt-trip. Tasks are executed with confidence and calm. Innovations are more frequent and valuable. People are actually relaxing in their time off and enjoy working for their employer.
When the customer is pissed off, it is like entering into Doom Eternal as a non-player character. At every turn you begin to anticipate a heated conversation about missed target XYZ and incident ABC. Each ding of your outlook bumps your blood pressure by 20-30% before you even see the subject line. Your executives start taking damage from your customer's executives. Investors begin executing difficult queries regarding long-term viability. NO one is sleeping anymore. Side projects? Are you fucking kidding me? Not in this hell.
So, when someone in my organization starts giving me the run-around about [pedantic greybeard doctrine which adds 10x overhead to a process], and also has no business value to show for said run-around, I begin to shut things down pretty quickly. If you want to play nuclear release authorization simulator every time you need to check in source code, please do this on your own time. Even the most elite hacker rockstars like to use GUI tools so they can see what the fuck is going on without making their eyes bleed every 10-15 minutes due to terminal character display restrictions.
This is true on so many other levels too. My job isn't to be an AWS expert, VIM master, Visual Studio ninja, Unix professor, et. al.
My job is to make the customer happy. That is it. If the customer is happy, my project managers are happy, the executives are happy, the investors are happy. When all of your bosses are happy, you can get away with absolute murder. No one gives you shit about anything. Production went down because you fucked up? No big deal - that was like the first time in 18 months we had any problems, and the customer can't even see these things through all the magical features get to play with day-to-day. Need to take the entire afternoon to play overwatch because [arbitrary fuck you reason abc]? No one cares as long as you didn't have a scheduled meeting. In this realm, your mind is free to explore side projects without fear of reproach or guilt-trip. Tasks are executed with confidence and calm. Innovations are more frequent and valuable. People are actually relaxing in their time off and enjoy working for their employer.
When the customer is pissed off, it is like entering into Doom Eternal as a non-player character. At every turn you begin to anticipate a heated conversation about missed target XYZ and incident ABC. Each ding of your outlook bumps your blood pressure by 20-30% before you even see the subject line. Your executives start taking damage from your customer's executives. Investors begin executing difficult queries regarding long-term viability. NO one is sleeping anymore. Side projects? Are you fucking kidding me? Not in this hell.
So, when someone in my organization starts giving me the run-around about [pedantic greybeard doctrine which adds 10x overhead to a process], and also has no business value to show for said run-around, I begin to shut things down pretty quickly. If you want to play nuclear release authorization simulator every time you need to check in source code, please do this on your own time. Even the most elite hacker rockstars like to use GUI tools so they can see what the fuck is going on without making their eyes bleed every 10-15 minutes due to terminal character display restrictions.