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Programmers Aren't Confrontational. F**k You!

by mcavaliere on 9/28/15, 3:04 PM with 5 comments

• by ChuckMcM on 9/28/15, 3:39 PM

  " I’ve worked at places where it’s prominent, and worked at places where it’s completely absent."

  You need to look no further than your manager and other senior leaders. Everyone will take their cues for behavior from those people. If they are confrontational, the people who work for them will be, if they aren't that way (and they call out as bad behavior such things) then the behavior won't be present.

• by loopbit on 9/28/15, 7:38 PM

  There's an article I read a few years ago that I thought was spot on on why programmers tend to be seen as such:

  http://www.computerworld.com/article/2527153/it-management/o...

  Personally, I don't believe we are confrontational in general, but we respond badly to because-I-say-so situations.