any redeeming parts? Goofy corpspeak? Amusing idiocy? Blows thrown?

actually it was mostly frustrating because of some microsoft-inspired meeting bullying. someone who really doesn't get the idea of give and take or meeting collaboration.

the big part: he hired devs on his team that supposedly have front-end dev skills (according to his assessment of "engineers" (that alone shows he doesn't know our industry). and he wants them to start

"helping" us out because we are still hiring up (we have a firm standard for quality and excellence).

and when i propose that we have some of our senior and principal devs sort of assess their skill to give them carte blanche (ish) to dev in our repo, he dick-headed up and refused to consider any of it.

I worry about what's going to happen in the coming years.

we just had our training on the new performance system this week. I saw an entire room of managers get into heated debate really quickly. The new model rewards three things:

there was a lot of resistance to trying to identify and attribute collaborative impact. I love it.

but I feel like Those Guys are going to flood the job market over time.

I just killed some details. But suffice to say collaborative focus and impact are big parts.

'cause behavior like that should never fly. If you think you're 100% right and your judgment is absolute, you're wrong.

if you feel that means you can't have conviction in things and argue your opinion, you're wrong.