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> It’s not healthy to have this much disdain and displeasure around your work. The disdain and displeasure is a result of experience. Of knowing what needs to
by Tangurena2 3y ago
> It’s not healthy to have this much disdain and displeasure around your work.
The disdain and displeasure is a result of experience. Of knowing what needs to be done and not being allowed to do it.
> The right way, the wrong way and the Army way
Usually, the problem is the sort of people who get promoted into mismanagement. They were good at "people skills" (and all too often - their only skill is sucking up to their boss) and bad at programming. This is a systemic problem that I have not seen any sort of possible way to fix in all the decades I've been working (or visiting dad's office when a youngster). If you could find a way to ensure that only skilled managers get promoted (and incompetent ones fired), you will fix Capitalism. No more Enrons. No more Innitech.
- notabee 3y agoIt's a self-perpetuating process though, since the productive, skilled workers are by definition spending the majority of their time learning and doing productive things, while the remainder have the majority of their time freed up to play political games and elect more of their own political kind into leadership roles. That tends to increase the workload of the productive people, further pushing them away from the nexus of decision-making as they're too busy keeping things running. Eventually a crisis occurs in the top-heavy organization (or society, even). The doers burn out or leave, only demanders remain, and everything goes to shit. Perhaps worker-owned companies could help with this, but I'm sure that the time investment imbalance dynamic would still be an issue to contend with.