> Learn to prioritize for yourself instead of expecting your slag pile of a management structure to do it for you
What you are suggesting is easier said than done. I think that most good developers have the mentality you are describing...at first. When you work in an environment like this, however, you get worn down. You can only put up a fight for so long before you start getting all sorts of mixed up and you don't know what the f to do. If you took the best prioritizer in the world and put them in a corrosive environment like this one, the environment would eventually win out. I really feel for guys like the one that posted this original article and some of the subsequent commenters. I have been in that boat before and it is not fun.
What you are suggesting is easier said than done. I think that most good developers have the mentality you are describing...at first. When you work in an environment like this, however, you get worn down. You can only put up a fight for so long before you start getting all sorts of mixed up and you don't know what the f to do. If you took the best prioritizer in the world and put them in a corrosive environment like this one, the environment would eventually win out. I really feel for guys like the one that posted this original article and some of the subsequent commenters. I have been in that boat before and it is not fun.