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People shouldn’t downvote him. He’s right. i’ve done lots of small things to save time and money in the past. Management really doesn’t value it as much as ma
by melling 6y ago
People shouldn’t downvote him. He’s right. i’ve done lots of small things to save time and money in the past. Management really doesn’t value it as much as making money or working on more visible projects.
Telling someone that it only took me an hour to eliminate an hour of someone’s work every week doesn’t go far.
- jedberg 6y agoThat's just bad management, not an axiom.
- VLM 6y agoSomeone was building an empire by having employees do manual data entry instead of parsing json files. All the way up the mgmt tree there are fewer direct reports. Nobody ever gets a job title promotion by having fewer direct reports. Even worse, someone else now has to explain "why they did it wrong to begin with" regardless if the replacement technology existed or not at the time of original process creation.
- jacobr1 6y agoA lot of this just visibility and internal salesmanship. Having an engineer standup at an all-hands and be lauded for saving $X million right after the sale-gal is lauded for closing the deal with $BIG_CO is something I've seen done, and it does it get recognized.