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With apologies, they are idiots. That they can't frelling figure out even remotely who is worthwhile to keep around or not is 300% on them, something so few org

With apologies, they are idiots. That they can't frelling figure out even remotely who is worthwhile to keep around or not is 300% on them, something so few orgs actually calibrate on, or do so based off awful anti-signals on, and it's embarrassing that this pathetic foolery has just gone on and on and on and on, with zero signs of improving. My boss loves me, swears I'm so full fo awesome knowledge & smarts. But every review, there's some VP pissed off I asked a question about why we were switching to OKRs or how to was going to work or how it would help or some security team pissed off because I have complained about NetSkope or their shitty undocumented USB drive blocking policies. There's always some fuck doing a shitty job offended that some engineer dare speak up, and my boss is telling me again and again it's costing me many dozens of $k in raises. It's so so so sad. Even if there aren't the dogshit losers, there's still so little discernment & taste. And there's so many people who can look busy and suck up, but actual deep knowledge is so so rarely respected. There's so many orgs that straight up deserve to fail, based on how bad they are at supporting their truest asset, their human resources.

mixmastamyk 2y ago
Intelligence is not enough, one needs people skills as well. Dale Carnegie and Getting to Yes might help.
- jauntywundrkind 2y ago
  It helps a lot! But honestly I think it's a bad disease that we say it's up to everyman to market & grow acceptance for everything they try. It should be up to organizarions to discern & navigate what their people say, to find good options collectively, collaboratively, & not based on crude lowest levels of popularity/acceptance. There's a tyrant of structureless that most companies blindly wander into, that lets things settle as they may, without trying at all to suss out what maybe perhaps possibly could be right. It's ought not be up to every practitioner to advocate for & battle alone, battle politically for right; orgs ought build in mechanisms of support. Failing that I think they deserve to die.

mixmastamyk 2y ago

Intelligence is not enough, one needs people skills as well. Dale Carnegie and Getting to Yes might help.

jauntywundrkind 2y ago
It helps a lot! But honestly I think it's a bad disease that we say it's up to everyman to market & grow acceptance for everything they try. It should be up to organizarions to discern & navigate what their people say, to find good options collectively, collaboratively, & not based on crude lowest levels of popularity/acceptance. There's a tyrant of structureless that most companies blindly wander into, that lets things settle as they may, without trying at all to suss out what maybe perhaps possibly could be right. It's ought not be up to every practitioner to advocate for & battle alone, battle politically for right; orgs ought build in mechanisms of support. Failing that I think they deserve to die.