Am 27.04.20 um 12:36 schrieb Joachim Durchholz:
It's a bit like with a car mechanic. If the workplace is grubby, people start questioning the attention to detail, and overall competence; they may still send cars for repair, but they will be more intent on finding issues, sometimes asking about things that don't matter (but they don't know this), sometimes being overly suspicious (but they don't really know how much suspicion is appropriate). If the workplace is clean, the standard assumption is that in this shop, there's attention to detail and they don't have to check every detail on their own.
Funny, for me it's exactly the other way around: when I see a repair shop which is dirty and with tools and parts strewn around I think: They are doing acual work here. When I see a clean and orderly shop I tend to think: They care about appearances, rather than getting the work done. This very much differs from how I view the /result/ of the work: here I regard everything that has not been done in a clean and orderly fashion as deficient. (And that goes for software, too, especially if it is mature.) Cheers Ben