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I feel bad for the LinkedIn poster here, I think he had a lazy manager. That's funny, because from the other things you said: There is an intense pressure to
by vanusa 5y ago
I feel bad for the LinkedIn poster here, I think he had a lazy manager.
That's funny, because from the other things you said:
There is an intense pressure to force a certain amount of attrition each year.
As an SDM, I wanted to maintain the illusion of great Amazon culture for my team.
It sure looks like this wasn't the case of a "lazy manager" at all -- rather, that manager was doing exactly what they were told: to force attrition for attrition's sake, regardless of objective performance criteria. In fact, at Amazon that manager would only be seen as "lazy" for not meeting their attrition quota.
- pm90 5y agoI read this as the manager being lazy because they were giving in to the unwritten pressure from their manager to force attrition (less work) rather than trying to help their team members by protecting them (more work).
- avisser 5y agoI understand that take, but, in the parlance of our time, you're hating the player and not the game. It might very well be a "both" situation rather than an either/or. But focusing on/scapegoating this manager's behavior, to me, is the wrong takeaway.
- vanusa 5y agoIf the manager is "giving in to unwritten pressure" -- particularly when it comes to making decisions that they, on some level, know intuitively to be wrong; and which more to the point, harm not only other people's careers and health, but the company's reputation and prospects for long-term success -- Then by definition, it is the directives of senior management that are at fault.