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"One flight attendant said of the current situation affecting Sequence Decoder that they had “never seen a company go out of their way to make life harder for t
by 0xbadcafebee 4y ago
"One flight attendant said of the current situation affecting Sequence Decoder that they had “never seen a company go out of their way to make life harder for their workers.”"
Every large company I've worked for had an IT department (or similar) that intentionally made developers'/sysadmins' lives harder. They don't care. So the good people leave, morale drops, productivity drops, management starts implementing crap policies to force more work to get done.
- dreamcompiler 4y agoSame here. IT people would prefer to shut down the company rather than help it achieve its mission because they are heavily incentivized to prevent security incidents and not incentivized at all to help with the mission. Couple that with a CIO who wants to build an empire and second- or third-rate MCSE "Certified" personnel and IT inevitably becomes a huge impedance against the corporate mission.
- GlenTheMachine 4y agoOur IT security people give every impression that their preferred solution would be to drop all the computers in the river and lock the doors. I naively went to them once with a suspected security intrusion event; they threatened to have me arrested. I couldn't convince them that I wasn't the one responsible.
- RockRobotRock 4y agoAt a previous company I worked, my team (system’s infrastructure) would purposefully avoid the cyber security team, and even attempt to sweep security issues under the rug, because they were so awful to work with.
- rootsudo 4y agoCan't say any intrusion happen if you don't accept reports or investigate anything. :D
- ajmurmann 4y agoI think all of that comes down to incentive design being too narrow for some central departments. Terrible outcomes for the IT department are breaches and their own work going up a lot due to lower maintainability. Another example might be the legal department where the worst outcome is the company doing something that causes legal problems. Yet, the worst outcomes for the company of missing business opportunities because we ship too late or don't ship at all because we avoid all legal risk or everyone struggling with tooling.
- 0xbadcafebee 4y agoI've never seen a central/siloed department that prioritized anyone over itself. Hierarchies suck at collaboration.
- glonq 4y agoI wish more people realized that HR, IT, and accounting are secondary services within a corporation. They aren't the core of the company. The people inventing, building, and selling widgets are the core. Everybody else is just a necessary evil that exists to help facilitate and streamline the stuff that matters. Employees should not be bending over backwards to suit HR and IT workflows and policies. Policymakers should be bending over backwards to invent lean, effective processes.
- vikingerik 4y agoThe problem is that HR, IT, and accounting hold the financial and technical power. And of course their primary concern to use that power will be for the perpetuation and benefit of HR, IT, and accounting.