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I completely agree it is a dysfunctional work environment where the engineer's only recourse to having a sane schedule is taking their "manager to a dark alley."

That said, framing the problem as: "those skills are not skills we teach anyone" is the problem.

Once you can recognize a skill gap, you can fix it. You can be the teacher.

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Well, I recognize my own lack of skills there. What's worse is that I also have a generally uphill battle with interpersonal skills, so I'm really not the person to teach them to anyone.

However, so long as we don't have professional courses taking this into account I don't think we can talk about teaching "software engineers".

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