How about rational management? (Score 5)

Personally, all those perks mentioned should be way down the list. How about the real issue of a sane work environment? I know that this could never really happen in 99.996% of the companies out there, but how about management that understands that:

• Requirements gathering is important and must be done first, not in the middle
• Meeting with end-users and domain experts is vital
• A user interface is not something tacked on at the end
• Changing requirements means changing deadlines

And not to pick only on management, but for those of us who are employees, why do we put up with:

• Changing requirements without change in deadlines
• 70, 80, 90+ hour weeks
• Inflexible work hours
• Stupid rules and politics

Why don't we just leave for a better job? Yes, not everyone can get up and leave, but as a former consultant I've seen far too many people who could easily find another job with a better environment but don't.

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

-- Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence of the United States of America

I'll gladly work at even a semi-rational company and buy my own coffee and soda.

;tedzzz