Le 19/09/2012 01:25, Blake Kaplan a écrit : > David Bruant <[email protected]> wrote: >> I've had discussions with several employees who shared with me that they >> felt somewhat guilty to be there, because they hadn't been a volunteer >> contributor before being an employee. They felt that in a way, they >> didn't deserve to be there, or at least deserved less than other people >> to be there. > I am curious about this. Do you mean that they felt that there were other, > more qualified, people in the community that were looking for a job? Or, do > you mean that they simply felt odd that they were being paid to work on > Mozilla even though they hadn't ever contributed to it as a volunteer? Only the latter. Maybe the word "guilty" was a bit strong when I described the situation; "odd" is probably more accurate.
>> I would like to note that although on paper a meritocracy sounds like a >> goal to achieve, it may not be so. From what I have seen, meritocracies >> tend to attract like-minded people and consequently drive themselves >> against diversity. > Why is this specific to meritocracies? I didn't say it was ;-) > It seems like this is a pretty natural > problem for any community. To some extent, hiring outside of the people who naturally came to gaining "merit" is a way to bring people who are less like-minded. David _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
