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"Teams is inferior to in-office". My brother in Christ, you made the application (lemmy.ca)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/techsupportmemes@lemmy.ca
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[–] 62 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Management lives in a fantasy world of vibes and bullshit. They don't care about the workers, the product, or the users. They are insulated from consequences.

The mega corporations need to be broken up, and replaced by smaller, worker-owned, organizations.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I work for a fairly large company and I'm constantly surprised by how much shit I do just does not matter. Me and a coworker have been working on a large project and have had to push it back several times now so that we are almost 3 months behind at this point and there are 0 consequences because none of the bigwigs are affected by it. Then as soon as someone high enough on the chain decides to give a shit half or organization will be expected to drop everything else and get it done.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Last year I busted my ass on a project with a pricetag measured in millions. 6 months later as we were finalizing the build and about to present it to the stakeholders was the moment executive leadership changed their minds and decided they didn't want it after all. We shelved the code and will probably never use it for anything else because it was extremely specific to that project, so unless someone in executive leadership decides they want the same thing again, it's just millions spent for literally nothing

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    I used to work for Comcast on their suite of mobile apps. The whole thing was just a giant fucking scam, but one aimed at the C-suite. Customers didn't actually use the apps, they just installed them so they could get a (temporary) discount on their cable bills. The installed apps pinged our servers once a day and these were counted as "daily users". Millions of dollars a year for absolutely fucking nothing. The C-suite eventually caught on and cancelled everything, but I was long gone by that point.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    smaller, worker-owned, organizations.

    Mondragon tried that, it seems to mostly work. I think the keyword is smaller, companies don't know how to grow without hiring idiots who then become in charge.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Thank you. The only example I've had prior was British Telecom.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    Volkswagon was similar for a while until the monied class realized someone, somewhere was making money without them and bought their way into a controlling position. Still have significant, though no longer controlling union ownership.

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