steve kwan user experience designer

Attitude is everything

(December 14th, 2005 - 11:32AM)

Yesterday in a meeting, one of our engineers got pissed off, laid into my boss and stormed back to his desk. My boss almost cried.

Not that my boss is perfect, but there's no justification for that kind of behaviour in a professional environment. Why is it that software engineers always have such lousy attitudes? A lot of the time, the only difference between a positive and negative work environment is the attitude of the players involved. It's all about the people.

Being a geek isn't a bad thing. If you get butterflies every time your code compiles, there's nothing wrong with you. But in the year 2005, social skills are perhaps even more important for software engineers to develop than the technical aspects.