> Deliberately break written company rules sometimes

I love this. It’s so true. Rules are written for indemnity, but nobody will blame you for not remembering every one of the 216 rules the company has as of this moment (217 tomorrow).

And they’ll love you for fixing the problem now, instead of waiting for the two week review cycle to finish. That is assuming you don’t break shit, but even then it’s a matter of ‘sorry’ in all but the most egregious cases.

> Rules exist to constrain engineers with bad judgment, not to bind the ones with good judgment

Also, “how to fall to the dark side” xD

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withinboredom a day ago | parent [-]

As an engineering manager ... please don't "knowingly" break the rules. It makes my job so much harder. Just break them and apologize. And try to break a different one every time; this is the one thing to be inconsistent on.

Also, I never said this; I disavow all knowledge of writing this message. I am probably drunk and queued this message to be sent during working hours as a prank to myself.

	▲	Aeolun 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Of course you don’t knowingly break the rules. How can you possibly suggest it’s deliberate. I just can’t keep the full list of company rules in my mind at all times, and things slip through the cracks. Things slip through the cracks a lot more if it’ll make my chain of command happy though.