Comments on: The Sacrificial Worker, part 2 http://www.wayofthemind.org/2006/02/07/the-sacrificial-worker-part-2/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:36:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: analytik http://www.wayofthemind.org/2006/02/07/the-sacrificial-worker-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-355 analytik Sat, 11 Feb 2006 11:25:28 +0000 http://www.wayofthemind.org/2006/02/07/the-sacrificial-worker-part-2/#comment-355 Nice article. About time everyone would realise what you wrote, but no, there will always be workoholics that don't know their price. Bad for them, bad for their teammates. Good thing I'm a <a href="http://www.getafreelancer.com/affiliates/analytik/" rel="nofollow">freelancer</a>! Nice article.
About time everyone would realise what you wrote, but no, there will always be workoholics that don’t know their price. Bad for them, bad for their teammates.

Good thing I’m a freelancer!

]]> By: Kanzentai http://www.wayofthemind.org/2006/02/07/the-sacrificial-worker-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-353 Kanzentai Thu, 09 Feb 2006 07:10:43 +0000 http://www.wayofthemind.org/2006/02/07/the-sacrificial-worker-part-2/#comment-353 Well, I think you have to bite at athe snake that poisoned you in the first place. Yes, one cannot say it enough: any and all orders/commands/requests that go beyond what's written in the signed contract should be written on a document worth as much. One must also take into consideration what is being asked of him/her. Don't ask your teammate/whoever to write that he asked you to get him a bottle of water since you were going to the vending machine anyway: that would be idiocy. To wrap it up, I'll write a small metaphor: if a company is a rocketship, you need thrusters for the other instruments to be worth anything. If the thrusters start either losing power or overloading, someone's going to be crashing briefly. Well, I think you have to bite at athe snake that poisoned you in the first place.

Yes, one cannot say it enough: any and all orders/commands/requests that go beyond what’s written in the signed contract should be written on a document worth as much.

One must also take into consideration what is being asked of him/her. Don’t ask your teammate/whoever to write that he asked you to get him a bottle of water since you were going to the vending machine anyway: that would be idiocy.

To wrap it up, I’ll write a small metaphor: if a company is a rocketship, you need thrusters for the other instruments to be worth anything. If the thrusters start either losing power or overloading, someone’s going to be crashing briefly.

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