Asshole Rating Self-Exam (ARSE) - Are You A Certified Asshole? - A Service of Electric Pulp. You feel surrounded by incompetent idiots – and you can’t help letting them know the truth every now and then. You were a nice person until you started working with the current bunch of creeps. You don’t trust the people around you, and they don’t trust you. You see your co-workers as competitors. You believe that one of the best ways to “climb the ladder” is to push other people down or out of the way. You secretly enjoy watching other people suffer and squirm. You are often jealous of your colleagues, and find it difficult to be genuinely pleased for them when they do well.
You have a small list of close friends and a long list of enemies, and you are equally proud of both lists. Sometimes you just can’t contain your contempt toward the losers and jerks at your workplace. You find it useful to glare at, insult, and even occasionally holler at some of the idiots at your workplace – otherwise, they never seem to shape-up. You take credit for the accomplishments of your team – why not? Coding Horror: The Programmer's Bill of Rights. It's unbelievable to me that a company would pay a developer $60-$100k in salary, yet cripple him or her with terrible working conditions and crusty hand-me-down hardware.
This makes no business sense whatsoever. And yet I see it all the time. It's shocking how many companies still don't provide software developers with the essential things they need to succeed. I propose we adopt a Programmer's Bill of Rights, protecting the rights of programmers by preventing companies from denying them the fundamentals they need to be successful. The few basic rights we're asking for are easy. They aren't extravagant demands. Welcome to the PowerPoint Magic and Games Web Site. Raincity, a web of opportunities | Raincity Studios Web 2.0 Community Development and Web Design. Will Pate | Web 2.0 Without the Buzzwords. Zero-Sum Thinking. In a conversation with Jack Welch earlier this week, he raved about Rich Kaarlgard’s recent column in Forbes on “World’s Worst Disease”. No, Rich is not talking about cancer, AIDS or avian flu – he is talking about “zero-sum thinking” – the belief that if one person gains, other people must inevitably lose.
Rich focuses on a significant rift in our society. In fact, this is perhaps the most fundamental rift in any society. It ultimately determines whether the society is progressive and dynamic or stagnant and conflict-prone. Unfortunately, both of our political parties appear to be captives to zero sum thinking. Rich asks: Why do so many opinion makers promote the zero-sum view? Rich goes on to target economists and journalists as being particularly prone to this disease. As JSB and I wrote in the opening pages of The Only Sustainable Edge: Static, zero-sum worldviews generally arise when people focus on the allocation of existing resources. Squeezing suppliers. Corporate Identity Portal.