Object Mentor Blog: Whiners that Fail

Whiners that Fail

Uncle Bob — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:55:40 -0600

The acronym is not accidental.

Recently, Michael Feathers posted a hugely valuable blog entitled: 10 Papers every Programmer should read at least twice. Do you have any idea how valuable this is? Michael has read hundreds, if not thousands, of papers, and he is freely offering his opinion about which ten are the best. A wise man would pay thousands of dollars for this information. But some people prefer to whine.

Get a load of this gem posted by someone named David:

... you should have actual pdfs of these papers, not links that require you to pay. If these papers were truly important, then you would be able to read them without paying … your tone is arrogant and annoying. Get over yourself.

Clearly this is a troll. Normally I do not feed the trolls. But this one pushed my buttons (I know, I know, that’s the intent of a troll—well it worked.) But it wasn’t only this response. Here’s another one by someone named Mik:

Thanks for the list, but please don’t link to ACM portal, it is a pay site. Always link to a free version if it is available. Yes, these papers are worth spending a minute or two searching for a free version, and yes they are probably worth spending real money to read as well, but if a free version exists, save us all the time and money and link to it.
One small moment for an author, or one giant waste of time for mankind.

What a bunch of whiners!

Here is this golden nugget laid in front of them, and they complain that it’s too heavy to pick up. Fools! Losers!

I’m sorry for the anger, but the attitude makes me crazy. Are we professionals who stand on our own and take responsibility for our careers? Or are we children who expect our parents to wipe our bums?

I know I’m preaching to the choir. The people who take the time to read this blog don’t generally need to be told this. But on the off-chance that this might actually reach someone and change their attitude…here goes.

YOU, and NO ONE ELSE, is responsible for your career. Your employer is not responsible for it. You should not depend on your employer to advance your career. You should not depend on your employer to buy you books, it’s great if they do, but it’s not really their responsibility. If they won’t buy them, YOU buy them! It’s not your employers responsibility to teach you a new language. It’s great if they send you to a training course, but if they don’t YOU teach the language to your self!

I fear greatly that our culture of entitlement has created a bunch of whining sissy programmers who think it’s unfair that they have to pay for a copyrighted article. (Pay? Who me? That’s my employer’s job! That’s my teacher’s job! That’s Michael Feathers’ job! I mean if they want me to be a good programmer then they’d better not expect ME to pay for these articles! They’d better not expect ME to do a google search for an article! They’d better come right over here to my cubicle between 9am and 10am and read the article to me while stroking my hair!)

The world does not owe you a living. Your employer does not owe you a career. And Michael Feathers’ does not owe you access to free articles.

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