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My most demoralizing event at a startup, and it culminating in me quitting - may years back, engineering manager had the right idea of out sourcing the "less im
by jmspring 11y ago
My most demoralizing event at a startup, and it culminating in me quitting - may years back, engineering manager had the right idea of out sourcing the "less important" things. I agreed at the time in the abstract, delivery ended up using many hours of my time.
I made it known to management that "outsourcing wasn't working", when said micromanager proposed we give more to the outsourcing firm, I said "fuck no" with a myriad of reasons why. Said micromanager was pushing me on my tasks and ignored the work I had to do to clean up his messes.
In the end, I left but outsourcing core components didn't happen. I'm pretty sure said micromanager was getting kickbacks for outsourcing.
Karma caught up and said micromanager didn't advance as expected mainly on other key engineers being done.
Startup exited ok, but they had shed said individual.
- greggman 11y ago> I'm pretty sure said micromanager was getting kickbacks for outsourcing. I'm really curious how companies let this kind of stuff happen. I guess I expect this kind of stuff from larger companies with so many staff no one is really in charge? A friend claimed at his company managers were picking outsourcing companies based on where they wanted to vacation next. They'd then book business class tickets, get a refund, then buy 2 economy tickets with the refund and take their lovers. At least one company I worked at had a whistle blower policy to report this kind of stuff without retribution and, at least at the time, seemed to be very serious about it to weed out bad people like this.
- jmspring 11y agoPut someone in a position of sufficient power, give them reign over budget and a professed plan, it happens. In this case, the inability to justify "they are doing logging code, I still spend 20% of my time which is supposed to equate to 4 people contributing and their product is shit and I still have to review it" was the only argument that held weight. Unfortunately, for me, this particular attitude is very particular (multiple companies) to a certain region/country.
- greggman 11y ago> I'm pretty sure said micromanager was getting kickbacks for outsourcing. I'm really curious how companies let this kind of stuff happen. I guess I expect this kind of stuff from larger companies with so many staff no one is really in charge? A friend claimed at his company managers were picking outsourcing companies based on where they wanted to vacation next. They'd then book business class tickets, get a refund, then buy 2 economy tickets with the refund and take their lovers. At least one company I worked at had a whistle blower policy to report this kind of stuff without retribution and, at least at the time, seemed to be very serious about it to weed out bad people like this.