Jedes plötzlich hereinschneiende Angebot ist gut – für den, der es unterbreitet. Sonst täte er es nicht.

Und die Tätigkeiten dort machen Spaß – aber genau damit fängt der Ärger an. Denn was Spaß macht, ist grundsätzlich ein bisschen „verdächtig“.

Hier gilt, was generell bei Kündigungen gilt (dem Chef ist es egal, ob ein Mitarbeiter intern oder extern wechseln will): Man redet nicht darüber, man geht oder man erweckt den Eindruck, uneingeschränkt dabei zu bleiben. Absichtserklärungen unterlässt man ebenso wie Andeutungen.

Extensions based on proprietary know-how benefit from the fact that knowledge is not “used up” when it is applied; it may even be enhanced.

One must reexamine each aspect of product and process, casting aside the comfortable assumption that everyone knows what they are doing.

When another person speaks you hear both less and more than they mean. Less because none of us can express the full extent of our understanding, and more because what another says is constantly mixing and interacting with your own knowledge and puzzlements.

Life in IT is pretty shitty when it’s so misunderstood and mismanaged. It becomes thankless and frustrating as people realize that they are powerless to change the outcome, like an endlessly repeating horror movie.

Yeah. This all sounds like a great idea with no chance of catastrophic failure.

To specialize in something is, roughly speaking, to be left alone to do just that thing and not be bothered with other tasks, interruptions, and other agents’ agendas.

I guess you could call it a “failure,” but I prefer the term “learning experience.”