S61 MK3 Easter Egg?

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  • 6xes
    6xes Member Posts: 743 Pro

    heres me thinking it was a ascii representation of buddha… pengwolf LOL

  • Maciej Repetowski
    Maciej Repetowski Member Posts: 669 Guru

    Buddha Pengwolf, I like that ;)

  • BIF
    BIF Member Posts: 961 Guru

    So a little more perspective, because I think it could really be helpful for some.

    The absolute WORST losses of personnel that I have had are the experienced people (including team leaders who have exhibited the "heart of a teacher" with younger/entry level team members) who decided they had had enough with the company or the grind, that they came to me and asked me if I could lay them off. Or to just up and tender their resignation because they where exhausted from being overworked and it wasn't looking like the company even cared enough to get them some help.

    In every case, they expressed the feeling that they 'weren't having fun like they were in the "old days" '.

    One guy, a fellow manager, told his own manager that he was so burned out that he couldn't see the light at the end of the tunnel anymore, so he figured it was time to pursue his dream and go work for a game publisher/studio. And he did.

    In my experience, it's almost always the best people who choose to leave of their own volition. If they're old enough and have been with the company long enough, they're going to start thinking "why am I beating myself over the head in this job/company when I could just make it all stop in 2 weeks?"

    So if somebody spends an hour or two knocking together a text image of a carnivorous penguin, I'm just going to laugh at it with everybody else. And if he or she (the team member, not the penguin!) is a high performer, I'm going to tell him so in our next 1:1 or performance review. And I'm not going to complain to him about his priority-setting skills.

    So, an observation from a line-manager. You have to make it fun. If you can't "make" it fun, then you just have to have the sense to get out of the way and don't stop it from being fun.

    TLDR: Don't be the "pointy haired boss" from the Dilbert comics.

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