I do believe the theory. Most people working are head nodders and fix some widget. It only takes them 10 minutes a week to fix or tweak. The only reason the wid

I do believe the theory. Most people working are head nodders and fix some widget. It only takes them 10 minutes a week to fix or tweak. The only reason the widget exists is so that the company can claim X feature exists in their portfolio. The fear of firing them is that the feature will eventually break and that person is no longer there. But at some point they'll realize it's super simple and can fix it. - But the fear of cutting endless departments like that is so powerful. Any yes, the top performers don't want to work on widget X even if it's 10 minutes of their day. Here's the analogy - lots of startups with 50 employees have sold for billions right. Once the company sells the payout potential is OVER which at that point those 30 of those 50 leave (within a year) and are replaced with 1000 people to take over and slowly add new features. Now remember the codebase still exists that has revenue potential that can feed 1000 or more people, but they did it with 50. So the code is paying for the product, it's just stable and maybe making a little profit per year. That's enough to justify it. But startups prove all the value is in those 50 people. The other 1000? they're all replaceable but in a union. The union is that idea that ANY headcount reduction is bad press. Why'd you fire Zak, I'm leaving too! rant over