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...curiously, this has not had the effect of workers voting to unionize at any of Toyota's plants in the US, where they have that option. Of course, as the man
by linksnapzz 7y ago
...curiously, this has not had the effect of workers voting to unionize at any of Toyota's plants in the US, where they have that option.
Of course, as the managers of Suzuki put it when they were building out the CAMI site in Ontario...you don't adopt another company's production system exactly, any more than you would wear a suit tailored to someone else.
- bdcravens 7y agoDoesn't stop programmers from arguing for a process because Google does it.
- jacquesm 7y agoEspecially when they are completely ignoring the fact that what works for Google usually works for Google because they have achieved a certain scale, not that Google achieved that scale by adopting these methods.
- pytester 7y agoTo be honest there are a lot of processes that don't work for google either but with their treasure chest of money and profits from an easily defended monopoly flowing in, it's really hard to argue that. I can still remember all of the people who defended the brainteaser questions microsoft and google used to toss at interviewees. If I was right that they were bullshit why wasn't I worth a billion dollars?
- artsyca 7y agoI must be in the twilight zone -- could this thread be the watershed moment where sanity prevails in software?
- artsyca 7y agoKey Performance Indicators aka when metrics turn into targets for jumped up managers
- artsyca 7y agoPeople don't understand dress analogies any more, it's reduced to absurdity along the lines of 'I don't wear suits so problem avoided'