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user-inactivated  ·  2939 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: [48 HOURS] What is Microsoft becoming?

The sales weasels don't care whether the product does the right thing, they care that the customer thinks the product does the right thing. The pointy-haired boss doesn't care that the product does the right thing, he cares that his ass is covered and he has something to brag about to his pointy-haired boss to prove he has Leadership. Your users care in the abstract, but aren't really interested; if they're told all is well, they'll take it on faith because they just want problems ancillary to what they're trying to do to go away. If you care about your craft or your users, you pick fights with your pointy-haired boss and the sales weasels so you can do whatever it is you're trying to do right. Dominant species or no, PHBs are easier to replace than you are, you can get away with saying "fuck that, here's what we're going to do" as long as you're right. Or you let it grind you down and just do whatever you need to do to keep the PHB smiling, but that'll make you miserable.