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If you've never worked in a large corporate environment you don't know how stupid things become. In a perfect bureaucracy nobody thinks.
by carlmr 8mo ago
If you've never worked in a large corporate environment you don't know how stupid things become. In a perfect bureaucracy nobody thinks.
- brookst 8mo agoI work at a Fortune 10. Things get stupid for sure. But I have never once seen “hey let’s do away with access controls for high-COGS services”.
- carlmr 8mo agoIt's never that explicit, it's more the things that nobody takes care of, because it's nobody's job. The bigger the company, the more jobs fall through the cracks, that should be taken care of, but lack an explicit role in the hierarchy. There's usually a small handful of people that care more than they should, keeping the company afloat, but it's despite the company's policies, not because of them.
- eks391 8mo ago> In a perfect bureaucracy nobody thinks. This resonates so well and I love it. I'm stealing this