On Tue, 20 Oct 2020 12:53:11 -0400, Mayayana wrote:

> But it struck me that the idea of being a "team player"
> (AKA willing to be a lackey who takes orders) has become an almost
> universal euphemism in employment ads these days.
>
Maybe a euphemism, but its very different from what I understand by
'team'.

So what do I understand by 'team'?  In most of the places I've worked
since the late '70s, teams/groups/projects, call them what you will, had
a boss but his job was primarily to stop intra-group squabbles and, much
more rarely, to keep everybody heading for the same goal. In many of
these, the boss was not the designer, but in all of them ideas and
suggestions were encouraged by both boss and designer/design team and in
none of then was a suggestion slapped down though it might be refused
with reasons. That's what I understand by 'team work'.


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