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@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ to admit that you are stupid when you haven't **yet** done the really
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stupid thing.
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Then, when it really does turn out to be stupid, people just roll their
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-eyes and say "Oops, he did it again".
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+eyes and say "Oops, not again".
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This preemptive admission of incompetence might also make the people who
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actually do the work also think twice about whether it's worth doing or
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@@ -172,10 +172,10 @@ To solve this problem, you really only have two options:
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might even be amused.
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The option of being unfailingly polite really doesn't exist. Nobody will
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-trust somebody who is so clearly hiding his true character.
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+trust somebody who is so clearly hiding their true character.
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.. [#f2] Paul Simon sang "Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover", because quite
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- frankly, "A Million Ways to Tell a Developer He Is a D*ckhead" doesn't
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+ frankly, "A Million Ways to Tell a Developer They're a D*ckhead" doesn't
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scan nearly as well. But I'm sure he thought about it.
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@@ -219,15 +219,16 @@ Things will go wrong, and people want somebody to blame. Tag, you're it.
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It's not actually that hard to accept the blame, especially if people
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kind of realize that it wasn't **all** your fault. Which brings us to the
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-best way of taking the blame: do it for another guy. You'll feel good
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-for taking the fall, he'll feel good about not getting blamed, and the
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-guy who lost his whole 36GB porn-collection because of your incompetence
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-will grudgingly admit that you at least didn't try to weasel out of it.
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-Then make the developer who really screwed up (if you can find him) know
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-**in_private** that he screwed up. Not just so he can avoid it in the
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-future, but so that he knows he owes you one. And, perhaps even more
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-importantly, he's also likely the person who can fix it. Because, let's
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+best way of taking the blame: do it for someone else. You'll feel good
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+for taking the fall, they'll feel good about not getting blamed, and the
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+person who lost their whole 36GB porn-collection because of your
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+incompetence will grudgingly admit that you at least didn't try to weasel
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+out of it.
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+
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+Then make the developer who really screwed up (if you can find them) know
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+**in_private** that they screwed up. Not just so they can avoid it in the
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+future, but so that they know they owe you one. And, perhaps even more
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+importantly, they're also likely the person who can fix it. Because, let's
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face it, it sure ain't you.
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Taking the blame is also why you get to be manager in the first place.
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