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Wed Mar 19 20:22:46 UTC 2014 <ninjashogun> Perlboy - you say that, but the 'shit' skils that let them 'float' are vitally important to the companies they're at. They do more for the mission than most lines of code that are written at most organizations.
Wed Mar 19 20:22:30 UTC 2014 <moiety> ninjashogun: yes. go work in a hospital or government agency. competence in your definition = arselicking and shagging someone higher up
Wed Mar 19 20:22:13 UTC 2014 <Perlboy> ninjashogun, 99% of managers are a case of shit floating.
Wed Mar 19 20:21:53 UTC 2014 <ninjashogun> moiety - are there that many incompetent managers in the world though? Don't nearly all of them produce hte basic results they're there to do on some level?
Wed Mar 19 20:21:04 UTC 2014 <ninjashogun> benderp - maybe a few years ago I would have said that ;-)
Wed Mar 19 20:20:36 UTC 2014 <benderp> no, you're a budding Jobs, right ninjashogun?
Wed Mar 19 20:20:20 UTC 2014 <ninjashogun> I'm not Icahn, there to criticize a $74B company (eBay) when he couldn't run a company any better.
Wed Mar 19 20:19:40 UTC 2014 <moiety> please tell me that was also sarcasm ninjashogun
Wed Mar 19 20:19:40 UTC 2014 <ninjashogun> I thnk a bunch of companies "suck" and are "idiots". I hate paypal and wish it would die. But I don't actually SAY that, or actually SAY they're incompetent.
Wed Mar 19 20:19:14 UTC 2014 <ninjashogun> moiety - fair enough. I should have been clear that I was being satirical, and not using my own definition of competent. I think basically 100% of people are competent at what they do.
Wed Mar 19 20:18:21 UTC 2014 <ninjashogun> I was just responding to benderp's statement
Wed Mar 19 20:17:33 UTC 2014 <moiety> ninjashogun: imo, you get people competent and incompetent in every field. competence is not something that comes with status. There are plenty of incompetent management in the world
Wed Mar 19 20:16:04 UTC 2014 <benderp> ninjashogun: all the reading in the world, and look at the shitshow that's resulted.
Wed Mar 19 20:15:52 UTC 2014 <ninjashogun> 1 min
Wed Mar 19 20:15:22 UTC 2014 <ninjashogun> no they can't. You just said only a vanishingly thin percentage of "everyone" is competent.
Wed Mar 19 20:15:04 UTC 2014 <moiety> people can be competent at producing food, building things... all the things you said ninjashogun
Wed Mar 19 20:14:50 UTC 2014 <ninjashogun> No, it's not ridiculous. By any definition of "competent" for which benderp's statement holds true (" a vanishingly thin slice of everyone is competent, and everyone else is constantly justifying their incompetence to themselves and each other.") it is absolutely true.
Wed Mar 19 20:14:17 UTC 2014 <ninjashogun> Do not discount incompetent people.
Wed Mar 19 20:14:05 UTC 2014 <ninjashogun> Most American teachers are "incompetent". Yet America has a near 100.00% literacy rate.
Wed Mar 19 20:13:53 UTC 2014 <ninjashogun> benderp - suppose you removed everyone from the world who is not "competent". You would be left with nobody making your clothes, producing your food, building your highways, collecting your taxes, installing your Internet connection, or keeping any of the factories, buildings, schools, infrastructure, going.