flounder

"I will not let this company flounder on my watch!

Lots of them do and quite a few flounder in the "I'm working on it, sorry!

SEs who get promoted to sales often flounder.

It's almost sad watching RIM flounder and thrash around so sadly.

I've known programmers who, when they get a new hire, will basically let them flounder.

It was sad watching it flounder, but I wonder what Adobe could've done differently.

The risk is that it could flounder without critical support, but Mozilla seems to be committed to it.

People who go out into the woods without a lot of training in wilderness survival tends to flounder around when things go bad.

It's not their job to facilitate a hostile environment and let minority students flounder in the interests of 'real world training'.

It varies a lot by team; some combinations of people just absolutely fly with this process, they're happy and extremely productive, while others flounder around unsure of what to do.

It makes a lot of sense to solve a "hard problem" in an environment that is second nature to you; too many projects flounder because as well as the project you're also dealing with a new architecture.

This doesn't happen in reality because our current system gives little to no rewards for doing other things like living, experiencing, helping, or learning - what actually happens to those people is that they go without another job and flounder.

Software in the gestalt is just too broad, it is arbitrary, any logical construct you can imagine can be built, but without an application deeply considered your efforts and crafting the perfect architecture with just the right tradeoffs will flounder.

They have an emotional stake in the company that goes beyond short-term economic interests, and I've seen enough companies flounder after the market jettisons the people who built it, and enough recoveries when the founders return, to question the wisdom of shareholder power.