The Laptop Identity Parade

<p>If &ldquo;<em>clothes make the man</em>&rdquo;, as the saying goes, then laptops most definitely make the modern manager.</p> <p><img alt="" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:700/1*F17OIvdZd5nGA6Sb9Kroxg.jpeg" style="height:1050px; width:700px" /></p> <p>Photo by&nbsp;<a href="https://www.pexels.com/@tima-miroshnichenko/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Tima Miroshnichenko</a>&nbsp;on&nbsp;<a href="https://www.pexels.com/photo/woman-looking-afar-while-holding-the-silver-laptop-5717231/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Pexels</a></p> <p>It&rsquo;s usually pretty easy to spot who&rsquo;s who within a modern dysfunctional software development organisation. Often you don&rsquo;t even have to go through that dreadful social interaction known colloquially as a conversation, either.</p> <h1>Workplace Observation 101</h1> <p>Many observational methodologies are available including, but of course not limited to, sartorial elegance, hairstyle (and respective colour), the assortment and arrangement of desktop decorations, and the all too common A4 laminated badly printed certificates&nbsp;<a href="https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/blu-tack" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Blu-Tacked</a>&nbsp;to the wall behind cookie-cutter hot desks or &ldquo;<em>accidentally</em>&rdquo; placed within a &euro;10 plastic webcam&rsquo;s narrow field of view.</p> <h2>The Cloth</h2> <p>Management, as usual, stand apart&sup1; for their favour of man made fibres for in terms of their sartorial preferences &mdash; those lovely fabrics that generate ominous clouds of static electricity as management drones shuffle down carpeted corridors taking laser printers, copies, and routers offline as they go.</p> <p>Developers, naturally, remain adorned for the most part in the stereotypical hoodies, t-shirts, and the standard stereotypical jeans of various sorts.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/codex/the-laptop-identity-parade-406c5bb61daf"><strong>Click Here</strong></a></p>