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What should happen and what does happen are two completely separate things in reality.

If performance actually mattered I'd venture to guess 95%+ of people would be fired immediately. Maybe I'm cynical about it in my advancing years, but kissing ass pays off exponentially more than producing good work (unless you own your own business).

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In my experience for whatever reason a lot of software engineers consider normal functional communication with their peers and managers as ass kissing. Is it because of being introverted?

I'd say there's a large streak of being self absorbed and thinking their shit doesn't stink.

I'm likely just as guilty of this. More so in the past as I continually try to correct my behavior (not always successful but I'm trying!).

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