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Reputation?

by acover 4y ago

Reputation?

jiggawatts 4y ago
Tragedy of the commons explains everything. Individuals at Google are incentivised to abuse the collective reputation for personal gain. It always seems that the towering reputation of Google is an unassailable monolith that will never be shaken by any individual. So every individual harms it in their own tiny selfish way, gaining promotions, KPIs, or pay bumps as a reward for their behaviour. Decades of promoting the selfish, commons-destroying people eventually results in an organisation that has these values entrenched in its upper echelons. At this point, the demise of the enterprise is inevitable, as the commons is destroyed in bigger, more obvious ways, by people now thoroughly empowered to do so, and surrounded by people competing with them for the right to also destroy the commons even more. Cash reserves and the intangible value of lingering external brand perception can drag this out for a surprisingly long time, but the direction will inevitably continue downwards. In other words, it is precisely "reputation" that enables this kind of atrocious, value-destroying behaviour and quality erosion. Companies without reputation are too busy building it, and can't afford even the slightest slip up.
- mavhc 4y ago
  They probably should get a leader to control their employees
- NonNefarious 4y ago
  Confirmed. A good friend and colleague worked at Google. Their employees are forced to use a graphical tool to rank coworkers in comparison to each other by lining pictures of them up horizontally... and you're not allowed to put people on an equal level. The tool enforces disparity. This after Google admitted that they've been douchebags during the interview process and claimed they were going to do better. Yeah, OK.
23B1 4y ago
I'm so mad at Google I'm going to stop using it entirely! Oh wait ;)
ProfXponent 4y ago
When your reputation is already rock bottom you have nothing left to lose. I stopped using YouTube a while back when it decided that because I like programming, video games, and martial arts I would also enjoy misogynistic pricks like Jordan Peterson and Ben Shapiro. There is something deeply flawed in YouTube’s recommendations, and despite my effort to curate content it kept driving me towards alt-right drivel.

Reputation?

by acover 4y ago

Reputation?

Tragedy of the commons explains everything. Individuals at Google are incentivised to abuse the collective reputation for personal gain. It always seems that the towering reputation of Google is an unassailable monolith that will never be shaken by any individual. So every individual harms it in their own tiny selfish way, gaining promotions, KPIs, or pay bumps as a reward for their behaviour. Decades of promoting the selfish, commons-destroying people eventually results in an organisation that has these values entrenched in its upper echelons. At this point, the demise of the enterprise is inevitable, as the commons is destroyed in bigger, more obvious ways, by people now thoroughly empowered to do so, and surrounded by people competing with them for the right to also destroy the commons even more. Cash reserves and the intangible value of lingering external brand perception can drag this out for a surprisingly long time, but the direction will inevitably continue downwards. In other words, it is precisely "reputation" that enables this kind of atrocious, value-destroying behaviour and quality erosion. Companies without reputation are too busy building it, and can't afford even the slightest slip up.

mavhc 4y ago
They probably should get a leader to control their employees
NonNefarious 4y ago
Confirmed. A good friend and colleague worked at Google. Their employees are forced to use a graphical tool to rank coworkers in comparison to each other by lining pictures of them up horizontally... and you're not allowed to put people on an equal level. The tool enforces disparity. This after Google admitted that they've been douchebags during the interview process and claimed they were going to do better. Yeah, OK.

23B1 4y ago

I'm so mad at Google I'm going to stop using it entirely! Oh wait ;)

ProfXponent 4y ago

When your reputation is already rock bottom you have nothing left to lose. I stopped using YouTube a while back when it decided that because I like programming, video games, and martial arts I would also enjoy misogynistic pricks like Jordan Peterson and Ben Shapiro. There is something deeply flawed in YouTube’s recommendations, and despite my effort to curate content it kept driving me towards alt-right drivel.