I don't really see what this adds to the conversation. It basically boils down to "stop whining and leave".
If we can't talk about bad practices, we can't fix them.
If we can't talk about bad practices, we can't fix them.
User stories are great, when they make sense and the people reading them and writing them agree on the methodology. Agile is fine for those who like the model but so is (trigger warning: anti patterns being complimented ahead) waterfall. I prefer Kanban but it works well for my team I'm ways agile doesn't. I like it so much, I talk about it. I also like user stories but for a different use case: SLOs. Surprise! I subscribe to the SLOs.
Any of the things I just said could be portrayed as one form of dogma or another. It's only a bad thing when people don't align. When people share or at least agree to a methodology, they're great.
What leads you to believe that just because you disagree with something then it's automatically a dogma and bad? If you're trying to debate the merits of an idea and you start your argument by dismissing and discrediting proponents, regardless of what they might say or how weak your points are, and to make matters worse you admit the proponents of said idea invariably win over your arguments, doesn't that suggest that there's some likelihood you're in the wrong?
If you read the rest of my post, you'll see that "questions as to the goodness of practices, or the lack thereof, are treated as personal attacks". There are other symptoms too, like questions being answered with non-answers.
Again, when someone claims that their way is the true way, and that everyone else _must_ follow the one true way, I believe that the burden of proof lies on them. Your opinions might vary!
I think you missed a branch in your case statement.
GP comment stated:
> either try to change the way things are done or quit and find a place that suits you better.
To my reading, "do this thing about it, or do this other thing about it " doesn't resolve down to "quit whining".
To merely "quit whining" implies sullen, passive, acquiescence.
Whereas the person you replied to framed it as a choice between two paths, neither of which involved passive acceptance.
I see it as adding a solution to a blog post describing the perception of a problem.
Isn't there a catchphrase of sorts that reads something like "either change company culture or change company"? If you can't change the company culture and you feel strongly about that, why do you think it's not in your best interest to change your life for the better? Sometimes you and your job are a bad fit, and there is no way around it.