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Anyone with experience in a large org will hate this because it's a stupid, hamhanded way of forcing people to continually beg for the resources to do their job
by fatbird 2y ago
Anyone with experience in a large org will hate this because it's a stupid, hamhanded way of forcing people to continually beg for the resources to do their jobs. Leaders think it's brilliant because it relieves them of the need to know what's actually going on in their organization, externalizing their responsibilities.
"Unplug it and see who screams" is not effective systems management.
People aren't rockets.
- scarab92 2y ago[flagged]
- brazzy 2y agoIt mainly allows you to quickly destroy your organization's ability to do anything, including repairing the damage you just did. Which is, of course the goal: to destroy the United States. They already explicitly said that's the goal.
- fatbird 2y agoOrganizational inertia can be cut through without causing a tremendous amount of pain and disruption. Stopping things by default is a very lazy way to do it. Doing it this way is a strongman fantasy that inflicts large costs: now your employees aren't doing their jobs, they're going through a round of "justify yourself" (when you should have had the organizational controls in place already). And there's nothing new about this strategy, either. I read about these tactics decades ago in management self-help books. They were just as crappy and inhuman then as now.
- mac-attack 2y agoI agree and would add that people aren't machines either. The concept of 'fire everyone and rehire who is essential' seems to lack comprehension of human psychology. It seems analogous to 'cheat on everyone and marry the person who stays' in that you are settling for the people who have the least self-respect and/or the least amount of options outside of their current position.
- scarab92 2y ago[flagged]
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- m4rtink 2y agoAre there some objective data for this ? Rather I am seeing a lot of new companies and startups by ex-SpaceX people for example.
- fatbird 2y agoHow often do Tesla or SpaceX fire and rehire only the essential people?
- throw16180339 2y agoYour repeating this all over the thread doesn't make it so.
- ModernMech 2y agoHow do you square that "fact" with the CyberTruck?
- tobias3 2y agoEspecially once people stop caring about things actually working and go into CYA mode (stop begging). "We wrote the memo that we don't have enough peope to check drinking water toxidity, guess leadership is okay with not testing for that anymore"