Working at a small shop, 6 people total, can be...difficult.
Maybe I should go into how the company is setup. It's kind of like a law firm. There are partners and then there's the rest. My buddy is the president, however all the partners have an equal voice. The president is the tie breaker.
My position is just as a normal worker. I'm working towards being a partner. The thing is that no one has run a company before and it's learn as you go. My buddy has a lot of ideas, as do I but I just talk with my buddy about them. Since they're winging it there is no clear path to becoming a partner.
I'm trying to develop a Machiavellian level of patience because I have faith in the company and my buddy.
So what's this got to do with Perl? Very little other than trying not to be too snooty a programmer when my nominal boss wants a feature and I disagree on the implementation. I suggested a different way to do it which would encapsulate what he wanted and provided for a situtation that I wanted. He stated how he wanted it again and I caved.
Oh well, at least I get to code in Perl everyday and telecommute.
