Comments on: Motivational Anti-Patterns

By: The Zen of “Go-Away” Rates | Caffeinated Coder

The Zen of “Go-Away” Rates | Caffeinated Coder — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:44:09 +0000

[...] consultants, all of whom are charging “go-away” rates, and listening to your CIO give a sunshine up the arse speech about how the new TCII (Text-Colorization Improvement Initiative) is going to revolutionize the way [...]

By: JT

JT — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:25:07 +0000

Russ…OMGWTF! Name names! E-mail me back, this is hilarious.

By: SteveJ

SteveJ — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:39:10 +0000

#3, yes, yes, yes. I remember the only time the President of a past company ever talked to me was to congratulate me for essentially operating a compiler.

Pres: “So you managed to get the program running?”
Me: “Yeah. Got everything set up on the test machine”
Pres: “So you figured out how to set all the timestamps?”
Me: “Yeah, Jim did all the work”
Pres: “So you got it to compile and everything, good job!”

By: PJ

PJ — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 08:48:22 +0000

Re Condom Fridays: just say “you didn’t bring any XXL”.

Paul.

By: Jack Hughes

Jack Hughes — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 08:26:41 +0000

@Mikey – What did your boss think you got up at the weekends? He didn’t think you’d be home perfecting your VB skills all weekend then?

By: The Driving Forces Behind My Coding Compulsion | Caffeinated Coder

The Driving Forces Behind My Coding Compulsion | Caffeinated Coder — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 05:44:18 +0000

[...] In part one, I approached the question backwards by describing seven motivational anti-patterns. [...]

By: Mikey the VB Guy

Mikey the VB Guy — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 04:44:43 +0000

You forgot Condom Friday. My old boss use to give out boxes of condoms at out weekly TGIF meetings.

By: Arjan`s World » LINKBLOG for September 24, 2008

Arjan`s World » LINKBLOG for September 24, 2008 — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:17:08 +0000

[...] Motivational Anti-Patterns – Russell Ball ‘ I had similar experiences of feeling that my company was one of the major roadblocks to getting work done while chasing down forms and signatures for piles of paperwork (…) ‘ So true. How many of these wonderfully described anti-patterns have *you* seen? [...]

By: Arjan Zuidhof

Arjan Zuidhof — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:53:45 +0000

Another one:

trying to share some pattern love by hanging the poster of the Head First Design Patterns book on the office wall. Only to have colleagues laugh and have a good look at the girl on the poster. Not having the impression that they learned a new pattern or something…Hmmm. Wait. What’s the anti-pattern in this story: not hanging beatiful girls on your office wall, or the devs not interested in patterns? Well, hope you found the story funny at least

By: flingcom

flingcom — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:36:33 +0000

incentive plans, certificates, awards….isn’t all them suppose to make you slog further