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Yup. It's funny, because for the first 2/3 of my tenure there, WalMart Information Systems Division did move extremely fast....and yet almost never broke anyth

• exikyut 7y ago
  Sounds like a very listenable collection of anecdotes and war stories. I would be very interested if you ever share :) (You're almost certainly already aware of http://old.reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport http://old.reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport - but just in case. And hint hint.)
  • Diederich 7y ago
    You are very kind. I'll keep that in mind. I was aware of /r/talesfromtechsupport but haven't frequented it much. I will take another look.
• ncmncm 7y ago
  Story I heard from someone who was at Walmart recently was that the surest way to get in trouble was to finish in a week what they had planned to take three months.
  • Diederich 7y ago
    Things in Bentonville definitely started going downhill around 2004, and by the time I was laid off in 2009, most of the magic had been lost. My contacts over the past 11 years have said that the division has continued its slide into bullshit. Given how fantastic things were, it makes me very sad.
    • ncmncm 7y ago
      That's life in a cost center. It is hard to contemplate just how destructive the "cost center" / "profit center" distinction has turned out to be. For us, though, it means we had better stay the hell out of cost centers. A business performing the duties of another's cost center, where costs may be amortized over multiple customers, can shift identically same tasks into a profit center.