Demotivating a (Skilled) Programmer
<p>Let’s say you are a boss of some developers. And you’ve got this one guy who is way too motivated. He is making everyone else look bad. You want to force him to quit. I have no idea why you’d want to get rid of your one motivated good programmer, but you boss-type guys pull this kind of crazy stuff all the time, right? Anyway, let me explain how you, the boss, can suck the ever-loving life from this programmer and make him hate his job.</p>
<h1>Things That Won’t Work</h1>
<h2><strong>Money</strong></h2>
<p>If a programmer really enjoys what he’s doing, he’s going to overlook the money. It’s true. Good programmers aren’t motivated by the money. They’d always take a cool job working on cool things over some percentage points worth of money (not to be confused with huge piles of cash). A smart programmer will know he’s underpaid, after awhile he’ll make his monetary demands known. This potential discontent, though, won’t effect his performance. Eventually, if you keep refusing, he might get the point and leave. But he’ll leave sad. Because he liked this job. At any rate, this method takes way too long (several years, probably) and can fail way too easily.</p>
<h2><strong>Acclaim</strong></h2>
<p>If you usually give verbal kudos to your good employees, and you suddenly cut him off, he probably won’t notice. Here’s the thing about really motivated programmers, they aren’t really listening in that meeting with you. They don’t much care for the meeting, in the first place. Having a lot more meetings, though, might work. But everyone will hate that. Probably not a wise idea. They know meetings are a necessity. It’s the price of doing business. They just want to get out and go back to doing whatever cool thing they were working on.</p>
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