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I spend over 30% of my time at work (pleb level helpdesk) doing busy work that generates no actual benefit to the business other than making it easier to track
by TheSmiddy 10y ago
I spend over 30% of my time at work (pleb level helpdesk) doing busy work that generates no actual benefit to the business other than making it easier to track the real work I do. If we were more trusted to do the right thing or the tracking of our work was better automated my job could be done with half the staff.
The entire company has similar inefficiencies at every level that have all been introduced over the last decande and especially the last two years. From all accounts this seems to be a pretty similar trend happening all across large businesses in Australia and I assume America as well.
- majewsky 10y ago> If we were more trusted to do the right thing Is that trust justified? Not on the scale of you, but on the scale of everyone working the helpdesk in your company. While I will concede that many management tasks could be optimized away, or just plainly removed without replacement without impacting performance negatively, these tasks do exist for a reason.
- Delmania 10y ago> Is that trust justified? Not on the scale of you, but on the scale of everyone working the helpdesk in your company. Why did you hire that person, and then not train him correctly?
- maxxxxx 10y agoLarge companies look pretty similar to a planned economy in a communist state. I remember in East Germany they had banners everywhere "We will increase production next year by 50%" or "We are innovative". Guess what? A lot of companies do the same thing. Big banners, centralized control, tons of people just checking on what other people are doing. I am on a project where it's two engineers doing the work with 5 managers looking over them. And if the work doesn't get done we just need a new steering committee consisting of more managers.