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Came across the drivel bullet points of a company's evaulation policies, which are broken down into three categories:
- Employee Behaviors
- Leader Behaviors
- Head of Business Area Behaviors
I was amused (not really) by the fact that creativity/innovation is listed only under "head of business area" behaviors:
Creativity / Innovation - Generates new ideas, challenges the status quo, takes risks, supports change, encourages innovation, solves problems creatively.
I guess they don't want the grunts to be creative. 
Marc
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My boss once recommended, "innovation in moderation". 
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Does he want Stackoverflow out of business?
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Does employee packet include blinders?
Someone's therapist knows all about you!
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What!
Release the hounds!
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the any key okay
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No, they expect you to creatively dodge work 
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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Marc Clifton wrote: I guess they don't want the grunts to be creative.
Welcome to life.
Jeremy Falcon
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Marc Clifton wrote: I guess they don't want the grunts to be creative.
Or they just funnel the credit for all creativity straight up the management chain 
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Now, that is completely unrealistic. 
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Depends on the environment 
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They're right.
I mean, how creative do you have to be to come to CP and ask for CODZZ PLZ?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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JM is right all new ideas must come from "head of Business". It is the underlings job to feed their ideas to HoB who then makes them his own.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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No company wants that, ever. And to a certain extent it's not a bad idea - if you're not a team-sized company wild mavericks are actually more destructive than useful (I'm living in a company full of mavericks and it's hell. It's like worikng on an open source project.)
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* Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
* I'm a puny punmaker.
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I was once told by a "Systems Architect" that us programmers were the IT equivalent of bricklayers - they design the systems and we just cement blocks together to meet the design.
My reply was that we were actually more like structural engineers, informing the "architect" that making a load bearing wall out of cardboard was probably not a good idea.
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Indeed. Several years ago, a management yabbo had us document our "software development process" and what we perceived the problems to be. I used the phrase "scheduling an invention" at one point, since that's how a lot of our schedules came to be. The yabbo told us that "software development was not an inventive process".
Since that time I've steadfastly refused to participate in any patent processes here. Software development isn't inventive? Okay, then no patents, f***ers.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Is RomeoAndJuliet.docx a play on Word?
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You should be bard for writing stuff like that
Sin tack
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Excel'nt Question. With a more positive Outlook, I'd say yes.
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But don't you find the characters rather two-dimensional? What do you think: 2D or not 2D?
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That is the question.
We need to get to the Bottom of this, one midsummer night.
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Has anybody seen Caesar? He didn't show up for work today.
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He's searching for his dog I think - I heard him yelling for Spot to get out yesterday.
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That's what you get if you think Macsbether.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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That was the Brutust joke of the day.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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