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To their credit, the stakeholder that asked for my head personally came to me and apologised once they realised that entire airports have been shut down worldwi
by drooopy 2y ago
To their credit, the stakeholder that asked for my head personally came to me and apologised once they realised that entire airports have been shut down worldwide. But yeah, not a Friday/funday hahaha
- defrost 2y agoMost organisations seem to have a section of management that dissolve into batshit crazy teapots at the first hint of a crisis.
- rightbyte 2y agoYe and these types make any problem worse. Any technical problem also becomes a social problem to deal with these lunatics and keep the house of cards from crumbeling.
- CoastalCoder 2y agoI don't it's a management thing, per se. I see it more as a personality trait for how one handles stressful situations. I think some people can improve upon it with time and effort.
- defrost 2y agoIt's not a management thing, it's very much a personality trait ... that for whatever reason seems to survive in pockets of management in most organisations over a certain size. It's not a trait that survives well at yard crew level, trade assistents that freak out at spiders either get over it or never make it through apprenceships to become tradespeople. In IT those who deal with failing processes, stopped jobs, smoking hardware, insuffcient RAM, tight deadlines learn to cope or get sidelined or fired (mostly). To be clear, I've seen people get frazzled at most levels and many job types in various companies. My thesis is there's a layer of management in which nervous types who utterly lose their cool at the first sign of trouble can survive better than elsewhere in large organisations. But that's just been my experience over many years in several different types of work domains.