From: bowman@montana.com   
      
   On Mon, 2 Feb 2026 08:44:02 -0800, John Ames wrote:   
      
   > For bosses who don't understand programming and don't want to, it's easy   
   > to think "they're being paid to produce this 'code' stuff, so the more   
   > code they produce, the more value we're getting on their salary."   
   > But that leads (at best) to sloppy, bloated code, and (at worst) to   
   > capable programmers getting fired for not being "productive" enough :/   
      
   The programmers were evaluated for results but the QA people were judged   
   by the bugs they found. There was some irony since if the programmers were   
   doing their job QA was reduced to rubber stamping the releases. That led   
   to a tendency to file a number of related bugs that were all fixed by the   
   same code changes to keep the body count up.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)