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Software engineers should be a little bit cynical (www.seangoedecke.com)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/programming@programming.dev
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[–] 16 points 8 months ago (6 children)

Speaking up against the manager is politics though.

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  • [–] 15 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    As is almost all the case when people say they don't want "politics" in things. Politics just means whatever they don't like/find valuable.

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Politics is about influencing other people. Engineering is about managing constraints. Sometimes these constraints come from other people. If you want to influence a constraint you don’t like, then you often have to influence other people (i.e. politics).

    I don’t see anything strange with this.

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  • [–] -1 points 8 months ago

    Politics is about influencing other people

    No and you prove the parent post right. Politics is the matter of the city (or in this case, the matters of the company/office).
    Influencing people is a side product of having to reach an agreement between parties, and if you successfully influence the right people, more shit gets done.

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