When I joined my first job, I have never thought will I leave this organization or not? As per circumstances I remained for a while with the employer despite of quite much post WTC financial crisis with the company. Anyways, I left when company asked me to 
As my career moved onwards, I switched some companies due to many factors like:
- Having absolutely no structure or hierarchy. Funny part is that most of the companies top management call themselves a matrix organization which by no means fulfills the definition. Just calling itself a matrix organization does not serve any purpose
- Lack of communication or you can say haphazard mode of communication.
- Having lots of managers everyone seems to be manager and you never know who you are ?
- Very little or no appreciation at all. Delivering is your responsibilities but you do a lot going out of your boundaries to deliver but having no credit definitely hurts.
- Bad apples, yes the bad apples who are spoiling the culture and always trying to make things worst for people they don’t favor.
- Last but not the least if you (an employee) have got no social life for longer period of time, ultimately employee will leave with frustration. Working on offshore does not mean you are not human.
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I have always wondered why producing an error is sometimes OR often treated as a sin. One of the major reason is the illusion that software development is somewhat similar to production. On the basis of this illusion, it is considered that:
- Errors can be eliminated.
- Humans can be treated as interchangeable parts.
- Processes can be followed blindly
The above and a lot more illusions can be associated within a production environment but not within development environment. For a thinking worker, making an occasional mistake is natural and healthy as well. But an error on job should be discriminated from a sin. One very clear definition says that errors can be recovered but a sin is not reversible. So if something is reversible that should not be considererd a sin.
For instance, if a product is designed and somehow design changes are required such that the older design need to be thrown away. Management tend to be very strict about it but it needs to understand that it is part of the design activity and that is what design phase is all about. Managers feel this would pose an impossible political problem for them. They seem to believe that they’d be better off using the same defective version even though it might cost more in the long run. Prevailing an environment that does not allow for error simply makes people defensive. They stop doing any experimentation and looking for new horizons. It happens usually when strict methodologies are imposed. Rather the people should be encouraged to make some errors by asking them what dead end roads they have been throw in their career. Think if any of your people says they have not produced any errors, it will make you feel the opponenet is either a dumb or making you a fool. All those dead end roads make up your experience after all.
Managers need to understand that they can kick the asses to make people active but not to make them creative. Creativity is required in every job that requires head rather than hand. Managers tend to adopt an attitude that everyone is replaceable. Using this mentality, it seems like manager may place an order in store like: “Send me a new Grady but make him less arrogant”.
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