Developers with bad tempers?
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My boss and I share a trait of being heavily bad tempered. Almost into a point of getting loud at a verbal argument against one piece of code. Recently I lost my temper and smashed my personal laptop after a few coding mistakes and frustration buildup on the coding source engine I was doing for fun. So here's my question... Is it just me? Or are there really just a lot of developers with bad tempers? Edit: I think it really boils down to how I'm being handled on my projects and work. if the clients have a decent attitude towards me then I'm acceptable to them, otherwise if not, then I grit my teeth and work with it. I think my temper is ill only once there's been a lot of stress. If all is well and well-maintained then I'm happy as can be. I really love my job, but sometimes it's hard to accept that these guys are willing to break rules just to get on my nerves. Opinions on this?
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There is a difference between bad temper and passion. So many business environments are focused around not upsetting any one no matter how wrong they are. Which in my opinion is worse than a simple disagreement. If there were more shouting in software development then there would be more code.
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My boss and I share a trait of being heavily bad tempered. Almost into a point of getting loud at a verbal argument against one piece of code. Recently I lost my temper and smashed my personal laptop after a few coding mistakes and frustration buildup on the coding source engine I was doing for fun. So here's my question... Is it just me? Or are there really just a lot of developers with bad tempers? Edit: I think it really boils down to how I'm being handled on my projects and work. if the clients have a decent attitude towards me then I'm acceptable to them, otherwise if not, then I grit my teeth and work with it. I think my temper is ill only once there's been a lot of stress. If all is well and well-maintained then I'm happy as can be. I really love my job, but sometimes it's hard to accept that these guys are willing to break rules just to get on my nerves. Opinions on this?
if (Broken) then fix.this else !fix.this end-if
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yeah if you're smashing a laptop coz you buggered up some code then you probably need to back off a little :~ Bryce
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bryce wrote:
yeah if you're smashing a laptop coz you buggered up some code then you probably need to back off a little
I once smashed a joystick as a kid, but those days are long gone. I'd be worried about any adult destroying a laptop out of frustration. Put in another context, this might as well be a case of road rage just waiting to happen.
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kArViD0tnEt wrote:
If I know that my boss is a bad-tempered man, I won't argue with him with just one piece of code.
I think it's more likely where that piece of code should lie (since the integrated software is very hard to sparse) instead of what code to use. Most of the times my boss and I see eye-to-eye, but he can't take how slow I can be while coding. Sometimes I'm already in the spot he wants me to make an edit into and he shouts at me, in which I tell him I'm already there. I just need to pace myself most of the time. a Subset of Pascal isn't my native language (Learned C# in college, go figure) so it's sometimes a little weird to work in something integrated instead of a generic IDE.
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It's clearly stated, I used the words, "For Example". I'm not saying that it's also your situation. I'm giving a scenario wherein you can tell something inside your mind without getting your boss mad. After all, were talking about bad tempers, not the code, I guess? In order to have him controlled, being creative on constructing your sentences and tone will be very helpful. :)
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