I’m convinced that companies have have quirks due to internalized organizational traumas that occurred in the past. Some calamity happens, the corporation overr

I’m convinced that companies have have quirks due to internalized organizational traumas that occurred in the past. Some calamity happens, the corporation overreacts and says “no, never again” to the bad thing, and develops practices to avoid it. The people that remember what precipitated the practice move on, and it just becomes a self-perpetuating oddity that everyone mechanically does. As an outsider joining a company, I find you can actually get a sense of the unspoken history of an organization by all the batshit crazy things it does. There’s always a story about how that all came to be. I’m not saying understanding that will help you fix it (you probably won’t), but it’ll at least give you a chance.