When we see a project went wrong with colleagues, we jump in and help them — almost like second nature as developers. The sheer enjoyment of helping others and solving problems might be where it all started — be it building a mod for your Minecraft server, or helping your hairdresser downstairs to make a website. It’s almost like a norm for any great developers.
Don’t get me wrong, great organisation should work like this: have senior colleagues offer immediate help to scale projects faster, or to make sure everyone on the team grows at speed.
However, the world might be slightly more complicated than how simple we think it is.
On the first day of psychology class at my university, the professor shouted to everyone:
You think we are here to be smarter? No, human are a chaotic mess. We are here to learn this predictable mess.
One thing important to note is that some of us are tech junkies, interested in building the best tech team in the world to create a first-ever something/world-class product; some of us are interested in power, and influence; some of us want to be ourselves — write code, be in our zone, dive in the tech we are interested in; and some of us want to pay the bill for our family. All of these are reasonable, but there is something in common for all of us:
We want to be treated fairly If we work hard, we want to yield an equitable result related to our work;
We want a fairly pleasant relationship with our co-workers (even we fight for implementation or features sometimes)
Helping others write code helps. But that’s not all. There will be times when you are getting paid for a one-person job but end up doing three; there will be times when your work is taken for granted and your leader doesn’t appreciate you; there will be times when your work is “being stolen”…
This list can go on.
But how can we fix it?
Start with something simple. Forget about values and principles. That list is too long.
Just roast your colleagues regularly. Challenge their threshold on a day-to-day basis. Make sure when the harsh conversation arrives you already have a softer landing ground to initiate them. Poke them. If they bring up some not common sense, make a joke out of it. It might still be hard since a lot of us don’t live in the moment, but the problems. Plus remote/hybrid working makes in-person connection worse.
Seeing this happening, we made ComCord—the most ridiculous chatbot to allow team bonding faster. If you want to roast your co-worker, we are here for you. ComCord also comes with built-in commands to help you generate memes, and turn conversation into tweet-friendly memes. You can sign up to our waitlist here: https://comcord.vision and try ComCord in our discord server now.
ComCord: facilitating team communication in every chatbox.
A lot more has been planned on the roadmap, so come hang @_@ let alone we build a developer densed community with a ton of god level developers.
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