Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1587

says...

I suspect today the results would be governed primarily by the length of the playlist on their ipod, the size of the headphones they bring with them to work, and whether or not the company allows file sharing software. I say this because this was a *REAL* problem with the young programmers in a company I was involved in a few years ago.

Literally nothing could be done to convince people that their nice salary was dependent upon production, all they cared about was humming and tapping their feet all day. Take away their music, and they'd turn into 4-yr olds having temper tantrums. I would have fired the lot of them, but instead, the boss caved in and the work environment turned into a bunch of little isolated "pod people", each with head phones, and no communication without tapping people on the shoulder and asking them to please remove their headphones.

The mushroom cloud overhead can cause some to get very verbal, but the effect doesn't last too long.

-- Randy Howard (2reply remove FOOBAR) "Making it hard to do stupid things often makes it hard to do smart ones too." -- Andrew Koenig