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Member 15049334 wrote: reluctant to provide training for any employee.
Now they charge employees for training when they leave.
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Member 15049334 wrote: It is actually the Peter principle:
Right. The original that Scott Adams satirizes (satires?)
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haughtonomous wrote: want to be promoted to as high up the ladder as we can get
Anyone with that attitude should be fired immediately.
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Oh, wow. I am definitely going to check that book out.
That's what I actually believe about Leadership. It's actually about serving people -- so they can bring their best selves to do the work. Few actually believe this, fewer still who are managers.
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Leadership and management are two distinct and different skills. Only a very few exhibit both in equal measure.
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So you're that guy? You make up stuff I never said to reply against? I never said otherwise dude.
Jeremy Falcon
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I didn't say you did. I was making an observation, that's all.
Maybe you need to consider that opinions that differ from yours are just as valid?
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Maybe you need to learn how to interact with humans.
Jeremy Falcon
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I think you should take your own advice. You seem to be remarkably intolerant of anyone not conforming to your world view.
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Or maybe you're just argumentative and immature with not enough insight to reflect. Either way, you're wasting my time dude. I don't expect much from this conversation.
Jeremy Falcon
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Oh and since you're gonna feel all powerful and crap, hiding behind the fake veil of the Internet with your little anonymity, we both know you ain't gonna stop. So, you can have your whatever the hell this is. I'm going back to the adults now.
Jeremy Falcon
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My favorite book on management is called "Fish!" and it is a must read for anyone who needs to manage people. It's primarily about fostering positive work culture where everyone feels like they are part of a team with a common goal - creating an environment where people want to show up and contribute.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
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honey the codewitch wrote: It's primarily about fostering positive work culture where everyone feels like they are part of a team with a common goal - creating an environment where people want to show up and contribute.
That is a great summary of what it should be -- and what I've always hoped it would be.
But alas...
I've seen the Fish! book before. I will check it out on your recommendation. 
Thanks
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I've been lucky enough to work at a couple of places where it was like that. One was a startup though, and it was during the .com boom - basically selling shovels during the gold rush - so they eventually went under.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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I had expected you would recommend “Cat Herding: Keeping Your Developers on Task”. 😊
Note: I just made up the title, but it might actually exist.
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> But, there's one caveat
As they say, ignorance is bliss. There's at least a little truth to it.
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raddevus wrote: that every one of the managers you've ever had __say__ that they want to do, but end up never doing
The reality is that humans are average.
But they are also average, below average and above average often in many areas.
And the fallacy is in assuming that they can learn and/or be taught to become better. And there are many ways in which that path can fail, from a failure to actually understand what lead to success in the first place, a failure to present it, a failure in the student to be actively engaged, the failure in the student to understand what is presented, the material is inappropriate to the students situation, etc.
There are many examples of this. The US education system rolls out a new type of skills teaching every couple of years and has been doing it for at least 50 years. Critics like to point out the failures in the new systems while ignoring that all of the older systems were failing as well.
Certainly anyone that has spent any time in sales has probably sat through numerous sessions with yet another 'system' that will improve sales. Often presented with very nebulous steps as well.
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Offtopic: Do you listen to audiobooks while working?
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I generally don't listen while I work. I don't like hearing talking while I work.
I actually listen to Smooth Jazz instrumental (no words) music while I work so I'm not distracted.
I listen to the audio books while traveling in car or when doing other physical activities that don't require as much thinking as writing code etc.
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Thank you for your reply. I also cannot work while listening to someone talking or singing.
I thought you had a super power or something 
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I once bought a $250 noise cancelling headphones (before noise canceling became a thing with Airpods I think) to be able to concentrate on my job.
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I come from a Microsoft background. I'm pretty good at managing SQL Server databases, making them parallel and fast, and I know T-SQL quite well.
To a lesser degree I know SQL92 but I sometimes get T-SQL mixed into it.
I'm trying to decide what RDBMS to run on my Debian VPS. Obviously it's not going to be SQL Server. I expect light traffic.
I'm wondering if Postgre might be the best option (most familiar) for me? Or if it would be overkill as I only really need simple stuff for the most part. I don't think I'll need triggers or jobs, for example. Maybe I'd also be taking on too much management. I'd prefer it be something i can set up and forget about more or less.
Mysql is another option and might be worth learning because it's so ubiquitous, but my main concern with it is overhead in terms of learning curve. My biggest priority is to reduce that curve. I don't want to spend time learning about a different RDBMS way of doing things wherever I can avoid it. I just don't want to invest the time.
I'm not sure which one would be a good fit for my use cases, which are still open ended at this point, except light traffic and simple, smallish datasets.
Like I said, by biggest priority is a flattish learning curve, so the closer I can get to MS SQL Server "feel" the happier I'll be. In the alternative, an RDBMS that's fairly automatic with few user facing moving parts outside of SQL/DDL/DML would be okay.
I'm not sold on those two offerings either. If someone has a better idea, I'm all for trying it.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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honey the codewitch wrote: I come from a Microsoft background. I'm pretty good at managing SQL Server databases, making them parallel and fast, and I know T-SQL quite well.
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honey the codewitch wrote: what RDBMS to run on my Debian VPS.
Did you forget SQL Server for Linux is a thing? If not, what disqualifies it?
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I've heard of it.
A) I don't necessarily trust it. Historically, outside of VS Code, Microsoft's track record with cross platform software products is not good.
B) Due to A I haven't looked into licensing but I'm assuming they'll want to charge me, and I already pay enough for my VPS given how little use I get out of it.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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