The Biggest Mistake I Ever Made
I&#x27;m the kind of developer the article mentions (at least some of my previous colleagues like to think so). But here is the deal. It is hard to work with me if you don&#x27;t want to put enough energy into your own work. Because at my previous job there were people who told me that it is impossible (for them) to work with me, and all I could see that they didn&#x27;t add ANY value to the project, but made me do stupid things like using Google Docs to track my tasks, instead of Basecamp which I already used with others for quite some time. And you know what? If you are this kind of person then it is super hard for me to not get pissed every time you open your mouth. I&#x27;m not the kind of guy to smile at you if you try to make my work harder than it already is.<p>And there were people who said that working with me was the best part of their job, but they were hard working and smart. And I really liked to work with them too. Every story has two sides.<p>I don&#x27;t mean that Jason (OP) is not right! He probably is. But you can&#x27;t generalize this as easily as the article says. Sometimes not the mean developer is at fault but the stupid management (even if there is more of them).