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I would be very surprised if anyone at these companies go to their desk to just do nothing. Less productive than should be, sure, but doing nothing would cause

I would be very surprised if anyone at these companies go to their desk to just do nothing. Less productive than should be, sure, but doing nothing would cause general revolts from people that do something (of course there are people that do something, innovative or not new features come and general uptime is held). It's basically impossible to both have an entitled tech elite but also members that don't work among them unless 100% are not working.

scaramanga 4y ago
Yeah my experience is people who have nothing contribute tend to make frenzied efforts to LARP as people who do something. Often creating needless busy work for others, or creating constant messes for others to deal with. Usually those people are at least in middle management, if not in upper management, so when people are trying to fix or ameliorate the damage they've done, they can't even stand up and say that that's what they're doing for fear of offending these peoples fragile egos. Alternatively, if the culprits are not in management, then management has hired them, but simply may not willing to admit they made a hiring mistake so will deal with any information from subordinates as simple personality issues for the employees to solve themselves. As a result, the people that work have to take on themselves an additional unpaid responsibility the actual restorative work or, at the very least, the emotional labour of pretending the mess being cleaned up wasn't made by someone, and just fell out of the sky. This leads to a syndrome called "burnout" and "staff turnover" far more often than it leads to "open revolt". You can't have an open revolt of one (that's just called "a mad shouty fucker who can't hack it"). And you can't come together with others to revolt if you're unsure to what extent people have internalized the state of affairs as being their own fault, or at least, being something that is not okay to be discussed (either for fear of retaliation, or they've internalized the notion that it's an unsolvable personality conflict and the done thing is to be polite).

scaramanga 4y ago

Yeah my experience is people who have nothing contribute tend to make frenzied efforts to LARP as people who do something. Often creating needless busy work for others, or creating constant messes for others to deal with. Usually those people are at least in middle management, if not in upper management, so when people are trying to fix or ameliorate the damage they've done, they can't even stand up and say that that's what they're doing for fear of offending these peoples fragile egos. Alternatively, if the culprits are not in management, then management has hired them, but simply may not willing to admit they made a hiring mistake so will deal with any information from subordinates as simple personality issues for the employees to solve themselves. As a result, the people that work have to take on themselves an additional unpaid responsibility the actual restorative work or, at the very least, the emotional labour of pretending the mess being cleaned up wasn't made by someone, and just fell out of the sky. This leads to a syndrome called "burnout" and "staff turnover" far more often than it leads to "open revolt". You can't have an open revolt of one (that's just called "a mad shouty fucker who can't hack it"). And you can't come together with others to revolt if you're unsure to what extent people have internalized the state of affairs as being their own fault, or at least, being something that is not okay to be discussed (either for fear of retaliation, or they've internalized the notion that it's an unsolvable personality conflict and the done thing is to be polite).