Re: not enough real programmers? (was Re: Byte Magazine: 18 Vintage issues, 1985-1986)

[hshubs@mindspring.com (Howard S Shubs)]

In article <7on5qh$dcu$0@216.39.144.179>, Victoria Welch <vikki@oz.net> wrote:

>My point and I think Howards is that there was (in my/our experience) NO
>compensation for it, unless you consider continual harrasment and demand
>for more to be compensation.  12 - 16+ hours a day on a continual basis
>IS abusive and detrimental to rational organizational goals (this is
>where burned out people come from).  Sure, it saves the company a lot of
>money, but they sure do not get much quality from exhausted and stressed
>out workers.

Right.  Mr. Bell doesn't seem to "get" that such "savings" is -very- short
term in that it destroys lives.  Lives are more important than any
business I can think of, including medicine, defense, and certainly
programming.
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