The substance of this post is outstanding.
The framing is not, though. Why does it have to sound so dramatic and provocative? It’s insulting to its audience. Grumpiness, in the long term, is a career-limiting attitude.
The framing is not, though. Why does it have to sound so dramatic and provocative? It’s insulting to its audience. Grumpiness, in the long term, is a career-limiting attitude.
Sure, I've dealt with plenty of assholes, too, but the grumps are usually just tired of their valid insight being ignored by more foolish, orthogonally incentivized types (read: "playing the game" not "making it work well").
Assholes can sap an organization's strength faster than any productive value their intelligence can provide. I'm not suggesting the author is an asshole, though; there's not enough evidence from this post.