on bad habits

i would like to say something inteligent about our team:

    E=mc²

there!
nobody can say that is not inteligent! :)



so, what is the relationship between that relationship and our team (excuse the pun)?

none whatsoever!


what i actually wanted to say about my team is this: it won't improve; ever!


let me expand on that:

learning something new, is relatively easy: your boss/supervisor/personal hero/whatever comes to your cubicle, and says we need someone in our project that knows the peperoni greek salad module; please look over it.


so, having nothing better to do (since you cannot have a beer in the office), you look over the documentation, flex your fingers, and start playing with the peperoni greek salad module.

after two days, your start getting questions from your team mates about how much salt goes in there, and how to compile the damn thing.


that was the ideal case



because in my team, it's the same, but with bad habits. and unlearning bad habits is a bit harder. and when they are enforced by a lot of people, it's near damn impossible.


when you learn something new as part of a team, the team supports you (even if what you learn is keep your mouth shut, the reactions around you are encouraging you to keep your damn mouth shut; afterall you learn it because the need is there).

with bad habits, when you want to unlearn them (that is: learn not to do them, or to do something else instead) your resistence is not taken down by your team; instead, they have the same resitance you have; and the longer you have the habbit, the harder it is to unlearn;

the larger the team, the bigger the effort to impose change;


and to put the tombestone on it, our team leaders, are against change!


i mean ... if it ain't broken, don't fix it! right?


but instead of improving, were still going with the same bad habits; and making more of the same;


so, there you go: it will never improve.