I had a nosey at another team’s Slack channel. There were a few team members complaining that things didn’t work on their machine because the commands were written for Linux and they had Windows.
Why was this a problem now? Their team had been together for a year. Well, a new team member had joined and he had used his “seniority” to introduce some new tech, written it with his Linux laptop and screwed his team over.
Then he replies something along the lines of “I don’t know Windows so I can’t help, but this is frustrating, so someone needs to do something about it because this problem is following me around“.
Well, dude, the problem is you. Stop setting up processes that aren’t compatible with your team members.
What I found interesting was that the complaints weren’t aimed at him. It was like they were following the “don’t hate the player, hate the game” kind of mentality… which I think was just because the developer has a fancy rank and they didn’t want to disrespect him.
It’s definitely his fault, and he should take responsibility to fix it. Maybe use a Windows computer; that is one solution.
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