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You're seriously claiming that the EU cannot compete with US companies because you can't credibly threaten to fire people to show that you're serious about a po
by brazzy 6y ago
You're seriously claiming that the EU cannot compete with US companies because you can't credibly threaten to fire people to show that you're serious about a policy decision?
- DangitBobby 6y agoI think they're claiming that it's important to have a real, credible, well communicated threat of consequences for not following the mandate.
- durnygbur 6y agoNo one would bother, because: 1. In Europe salaries are not worth personal sacrifices 2. No compay aims for IPO, few are public Maybe, if you'd hire only desperate people from Spain, Italy, Poland, Greece, and Romania, AND they all had a mortgage... then squeeze like this would work.
- nix23 6y ago>In Europe salaries are not worth personal sacrifices That's exactly it!!
- brazzy 6y agoWhat kind of shit company culture do people have where you need threats to implement a simple, clear-cut technical decision?
- AdrianB1 6y agoAll. I worked with many top tier companies and policy adherence is null without reinforcement; this is the reality, without motivation everyone ignores policies and decisions.
- brazzy 6y agoThere are many other forms of motivation and reinforcement other than explicit threats of firing pople, and most of them are less aggravating. In fact I very much doubt Amazon actually does that constantly, and I also doubt that it was the key reinforcement in this specific case, even if it wasn't simply an exaggeration. Refusing to do what you're told will in fact get you fired in most European companies as well. I actually witnessed that happening not too long ago. So what's even the argument here?
- DangitBobby 6y agoSome use the carrot, some use the stick, and some use both.
- liamcardenas 6y agoStruggling to think of a culture that leads to excellent results as consistently as Amazon
- brazzy 6y agoApart from results (for whom?) being not the only thing to judge a compan culture for, I am pretty damn sure that Amazon does not, in fact, rely primarily on constant explicit threats of firing people to make people just fucking do what their boss tells them to do.