Overtooting?
- By: Qwaider
- On:Thursday, May 21, 2009 8:43:00 PM
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Couple of weeks ago, I talked about over-succeeding. But on the flip side there is such a thing as over-tooting, over celebrating, over showing off, over promoting.
If you work with people in Academia, this appears to be clearer than other places. But rest assured, it's everywhere.
Someone would just publish a paper on how to do something trivial, stupid, or unimportant... Few years later, you find people coming to the office with champagne bottles and confetti celebrating the ratification of the new method of tying shoes as a new ISO standard. Then the long and boring congratulatory emails on how amazing someone's brain farts were...
Then you go to read the new "breakthrough" and it turns out to be nothing more than a horribly written paper on something that anyone with half a brain would have done on their own!
What surprises me more is how some people go the extra mile to get some exposure on less than mediocre work. Then comes dumb management types who understand nothing, but hear the big organization's name next to the crappy paper. And jump immediately on the band wagon as how they believed all along in that brain fart!
If anything, it makes me lose all respect for some of the middle management who appear to jump on these trivialities and start promoting them like the best thing since sliced bread!
Oh, and if you happen to share a piece of code that is supposed to do X, Y and Z. Make sure it delivers X, Y and Z! (Just a thought)
Memories....
Looks like you're speaking from experience :)
Ahmad
If it was "a" bad day, I would have taken it just fine. But it's been a bad, 3 months of people marvelling at the stupidity of something completely useless!
Faisal
Don't let these people discourage you away from your dreams. You will find them everywhere
now, not because you read something in Archy's comics it has to be significant. They just cater brain farts to half brained audience! :)
But yeah, some things *are* over hyped :-p
Take patenting something for example. You can patent anything under the sun, right? anything. Just write it up, spend the time, effort and money and ... now you hold a patent! Or something the doesn't even necessarily works or that "inventive"