diff --git a/handbook/company.md b/handbook/company.md index c4fed0ecc0..50e970f1ec 100644 --- a/handbook/company.md +++ b/handbook/company.md @@ -96,26 +96,19 @@ When a new team member joins Fleet, they adopt the values, from day 1. This way ### 🔴 Empathy Empathy leads to better understanding, better communication, and better decisions. Try to understand what people may be going through, so you can help make it better. - -- Think and make customer-first choices. - - -- Consider your counterpart. + > You would rest easier, knowing that everyone who works at Fleet is seeking to deliver the experience they would want for themselves, in your shoes. --> + - Think and make customer-first choices. + - Consider your counterpart. - For example: keep in mind customers, contributors, colleagues, the other person in your Zoom meeting, the other folks in a Slack channel, the people who use software and APIs you build, the people following the processes you design. - Ask questions in a way you would want to be asked. - Assume others have positive intent. - Be kind. - Quickly review pending changes when your review is requested. - - Be punctual. - End meetings on time. - Role play as a user. @@ -126,7 +119,7 @@ Empathy leads to better understanding, better communication, and better decision - Create patches with care (upgrading to new releases of Fleet can be time-consuming for users running self-managed deployments). - Confusing error messages make people feel helpless and can fill them with despair. - Error messages deserve to be good (it's worth it to spend time on them). - - UI help-text and labels deserve to be good (it's worth it to spend time on them). + - UI help text and labels deserve to be good (it's worth it to spend time on them). - Invest in hospitality. - "Be a helper." -Mr. Rogers - Think and say [positive things](https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/06/mr-rogers-neighborhood-talking-to-kids/562352/). @@ -147,7 +140,6 @@ Empathy leads to better understanding, better communication, and better decision - Take responsibility. - Think like an owner. - Follow through on commitments (actions match your words). - - Own up to mistakes. - Understand why it matters (the goals of the work you are doing). - Consider the business impact (fast forward 12 months, consider the total cost of ownership over the eternity of maintenance).