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Softpanorama IT Slackers Society. Established December 31, 2006
by Dr. Nikolai Bezroukov
Version 1.02 (Mar 10, 2012)
Give yourself a break -- slow down... |
After several years of working in IT many highly qualified programmers and top system administrators face strange symptoms which might be defined as "allergy to IT environment". Among them:
Working for a completely crazy control freak or a half-crazy
right wing authoritarian jerk, or know nothing who is school friend of
vice-president of IT is much less fun that you expected in college. Your resentment is growing day by day and several times you
already was razor-thin close to being summoned on "red
carpet" for friendly counseling. You start to understand that
the key
task of IT brass is to impede wherever possible the adoption on useful
technologies as they might threaten their existence. And that there is a real danger
of severe punishment for anybody who still has the remnants of sanity in the
selection of applications or architecture. Especially if he/she is trying to
introduce something new.
If you think that three or more points in this list are true about your current position, don't fall in despare -- help is coming. Join Softpanorama IT Slacker Society.
Below you can find the IT Slacker Manifest. The key motto is "give yourself a break -- slow down". This is a society for IT "neo-slaves" who are only superficially different from the "damned of the service industry", condemned to dress up as clowns all week or mid-management lemmings who waste all their lives in pointless meetings.
In order to join you just need read and accept the following manifest and click on one of the advertisements at any page of the Softpanorama Web site to pay your annual fee :-). You need to realizes that this is the time for IT wage slaves to hit back and that you can make a difference being an underground member of this resistance movement. Here are the key ideas that we proudly call "IT Slacker Society Manifest." They are only few of them and they are definitely devoid of usual corporate BS (see also Ten Commandments of Software Development Slackerism) :
Beware of excessive zeal in pushing keys on the keyboard and
moving electrons too fast. While you can think about yourself
as a brilliant programmer or administrator it does not matter one bit.
In reality you are just a special kind of mover -- electrons mover.
And as such you can be replaced by almost
anybody sitting next to you. Or outsourced to some remote or not so
remote place. So work as slow as possible, do quality job
to preserve your dignity and reserve some time to venture outside your
cubicle. Despite your excessive zeal to push keys on the
keyboard you need to spend some time (not too much, if you can help
it) cultivating your personal network so that you're untouchable when
the next outsourcing wave or reorganization comes knocking in the your
door Try to spend some time making real contact with those around
you instead of sending email and using IM. As system
provide you with the lunch break never try to skip it to do more. This is
your tiny slot of personal time and you need to use it in full to eat and
communicate with people, not to push keys on the keyboard. This means sticking your head out of your cubicle, leaving
the server room, and dealing with the real people. As Prince Kropotkin
once noted about his prison guards, "people are better then institutions."
Society
Groupthink : Two Party System as Polyarchy : Corruption of Regulators : Bureaucracies : Understanding Micromanagers and Control Freaks : Toxic Managers : Harvard Mafia : Diplomatic Communication : Surviving a Bad Performance Review : Insufficient Retirement Funds as Immanent Problem of Neoliberal Regime : PseudoScience : Who Rules America : Neoliberalism : The Iron Law of Oligarchy : Libertarian Philosophy
Quotes
War and Peace : Skeptical Finance : John Kenneth Galbraith :Talleyrand : Oscar Wilde : Otto Von Bismarck : Keynes : George Carlin : Skeptics : Propaganda : SE quotes : Language Design and Programming Quotes : Random IT-related quotes : Somerset Maugham : Marcus Aurelius : Kurt Vonnegut : Eric Hoffer : Winston Churchill : Napoleon Bonaparte : Ambrose Bierce : Bernard Shaw : Mark Twain Quotes
Bulletin:
Vol 25, No.12 (December, 2013) Rational Fools vs. Efficient Crooks The efficient markets hypothesis : Political Skeptic Bulletin, 2013 : Unemployment Bulletin, 2010 : Vol 23, No.10 (October, 2011) An observation about corporate security departments : Slightly Skeptical Euromaydan Chronicles, June 2014 : Greenspan legacy bulletin, 2008 : Vol 25, No.10 (October, 2013) Cryptolocker Trojan (Win32/Crilock.A) : Vol 25, No.08 (August, 2013) Cloud providers as intelligence collection hubs : Financial Humor Bulletin, 2010 : Inequality Bulletin, 2009 : Financial Humor Bulletin, 2008 : Copyleft Problems Bulletin, 2004 : Financial Humor Bulletin, 2011 : Energy Bulletin, 2010 : Malware Protection Bulletin, 2010 : Vol 26, No.1 (January, 2013) Object-Oriented Cult : Political Skeptic Bulletin, 2011 : Vol 23, No.11 (November, 2011) Softpanorama classification of sysadmin horror stories : Vol 25, No.05 (May, 2013) Corporate bullshit as a communication method : Vol 25, No.06 (June, 2013) A Note on the Relationship of Brooks Law and Conway Law
History:
Fifty glorious years (1950-2000): the triumph of the US computer engineering : Donald Knuth : TAoCP and its Influence of Computer Science : Richard Stallman : Linus Torvalds : Larry Wall : John K. Ousterhout : CTSS : Multix OS Unix History : Unix shell history : VI editor : History of pipes concept : Solaris : MS DOS : Programming Languages History : PL/1 : Simula 67 : C : History of GCC development : Scripting Languages : Perl history : OS History : Mail : DNS : SSH : CPU Instruction Sets : SPARC systems 1987-2006 : Norton Commander : Norton Utilities : Norton Ghost : Frontpage history : Malware Defense History : GNU Screen : OSS early history
Classic books:
The Peter Principle : Parkinson Law : 1984 : The Mythical Man-Month : How to Solve It by George Polya : The Art of Computer Programming : The Elements of Programming Style : The Unix Hater�s Handbook : The Jargon file : The True Believer : Programming Pearls : The Good Soldier Svejk : The Power Elite
Most popular humor pages:
Manifest of the Softpanorama IT Slacker Society : Ten Commandments of the IT Slackers Society : Computer Humor Collection : BSD Logo Story : The Cuckoo's Egg : IT Slang : C++ Humor : ARE YOU A BBS ADDICT? : The Perl Purity Test : Object oriented programmers of all nations : Financial Humor : Financial Humor Bulletin, 2008 : Financial Humor Bulletin, 2010 : The Most Comprehensive Collection of Editor-related Humor : Programming Language Humor : Goldman Sachs related humor : Greenspan humor : C Humor : Scripting Humor : Real Programmers Humor : Web Humor : GPL-related Humor : OFM Humor : Politically Incorrect Humor : IDS Humor : "Linux Sucks" Humor : Russian Musical Humor : Best Russian Programmer Humor : Microsoft plans to buy Catholic Church : Richard Stallman Related Humor : Admin Humor : Perl-related Humor : Linus Torvalds Related humor : PseudoScience Related Humor : Networking Humor : Shell Humor : Financial Humor Bulletin, 2011 : Financial Humor Bulletin, 2012 : Financial Humor Bulletin, 2013 : Java Humor : Software Engineering Humor : Sun Solaris Related Humor : Education Humor : IBM Humor : Assembler-related Humor : VIM Humor : Computer Viruses Humor : Bright tomorrow is rescheduled to a day after tomorrow : Classic Computer Humor
The Last but not Least Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage and those who manage what they do not understand ~Archibald Putt. Ph.D
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