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Toyota's "Respect for People" was a sort of joke to me when I worked there, then I worked at Amazon and saw the opposite. Toyota is a great company to work for
by TimesOldRoman 5y ago
Toyota's "Respect for People" was a sort of joke to me when I worked there, then I worked at Amazon and saw the opposite.
Toyota is a great company to work for, albeit super boring.
- hef19898 5y agoMost well-run operations tend to be boring, because there are not enough fuck-ups to make it interesting. Kind of what you want. Agree on the Amazon thing, despite being super efficient, and operationally well-run, they could care more about people. To put it diplomatically. Amazon is very consistent between blue and white collar so. That cannot be said about a lot other companies out there.
- mbg721 5y agoBeing ethical is often aligned with being boring. I don't want the employees at my insurance company doing anything exciting with my personal information.
- quartesixte 5y agoOr with two ton metal death traps going at 100mph. Boring in manufacturing is good.
- drewcoo 5y agoThe ethical and boring axes are orthogonal. I didn't expect to read that ethical and boring are aligned during Black History Month (US).
- mbg721 5y agoI would still argue that orderly actions that follow an established code tend to be boring, and that such codes are generally set up to encourage ethical actions.