He painted a typical story that management has to fight every day and you painted a typical story that bottom-er has to fight every day as well.
When you merged both stories, it sounds like a typical girl-girl room mate long-year fight: at some point, you don't know whose faults or who started the fight or the root cause of the problems.
It becomes she-says he-says. A dysfunctional relationship.
At its core, humans have certain level of selfishness and greediness. That is unavoidable.
Even after you pay good salary to young developers, if he/she has short attention span, you couldn't do anything about it. There are quite a few developers out there that are eager to jump the framework/language/storage bandwagon every second.
I don't have any problem if they want to try out new technologies at home, but don't bring smuginess to work and starting to get all gung-ho about new frameworks or shiny tools during meetings and threatened to leave. I want to get shit done as opposed to bet my ass on a new technology.
It is true, some of us do have short attention spans. And you're right, time has changed, and things are probably getting worse (depending whom you asked). I know there are a few of us who would love to use MongoDB or Hadoop or HBase or Node.JS to solve problems that don't exist just because they want to work in company "X" that just happened to publish a blog post about how awesome it is to work in their company (and we all know that some of these blogposts have a lot of marketing hype).
He painted a typical story that management has to fight every day and you painted a typical story that bottom-er has to fight every day as well.
When you merged both stories, it sounds like a typical girl-girl room mate long-year fight: at some point, you don't know whose faults or who started the fight or the root cause of the problems.
It becomes she-says he-says. A dysfunctional relationship.
At its core, humans have certain level of selfishness and greediness. That is unavoidable.
Even after you pay good salary to young developers, if he/she has short attention span, you couldn't do anything about it. There are quite a few developers out there that are eager to jump the framework/language/storage bandwagon every second.
I don't have any problem if they want to try out new technologies at home, but don't bring smuginess to work and starting to get all gung-ho about new frameworks or shiny tools during meetings and threatened to leave. I want to get shit done as opposed to bet my ass on a new technology.
It is true, some of us do have short attention spans. And you're right, time has changed, and things are probably getting worse (depending whom you asked). I know there are a few of us who would love to use MongoDB or Hadoop or HBase or Node.JS to solve problems that don't exist just because they want to work in company "X" that just happened to publish a blog post about how awesome it is to work in their company (and we all know that some of these blogposts have a lot of marketing hype).