Does anyone ever read the positive reviews? I know when I am looking into a company on glassdoor, I just skip to the reviews describing the problems people have had.
I try to be thorough too if possible. Another problem though is that the "at a glance" or overall rating gets boosted by gaming the system.
"I am a programmer, it isn't my job to help plug in and setup a printer"
omg you are clueless and clearly a programmer, your hypothetical goes in the wrong direction: as a programmer, it is NOT your job to help plug in and set up a printer, and the hard part as an employer is getting programmers to stop doing shit like that. You are paid far too much for that, AND you're going to deliver your own project late as it is, so please remained focused on your job, and leave printer setup to the people whose job that is, they'll figure it out.
I wish sharing someone's comment from slashdot has the same level of perceived oomph as from Twitter or memes or something. Unfortunately, no. I love this reply though. I actually have to do this at my current job (first time in about 2 decades) because our department/company is so small. It works out better in the end to teach the non-programmers how to fix printer issues if there's no I.T. department.
Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant. -- Edmund Burke
