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So your position is that people actually want to do more work, but their managers are forcing them to work less? I don't buy it.
by breezybottom 3mo ago
So your position is that people actually want to do more work, but their managers are forcing them to work less? I don't buy it.
- throw1234567891 3mo agoYup, it happens. Often in service companies. Client paid fox x, y, z, not x2, y, z.
- cmiles74 3mo agoI have worked with people who have this attitude ("do the story, now!"). I think it eventually de-motivates people and you get a lot of bare-minimum type work from the development team. There's often a lot of stressful priority shifting as well, that can also encourage people to meet only the minimum requirements.
- Suzuran 3mo agoNo, you missed the point. The GP was talking about causes for the situation where people are apparently prone to "outsourcing their thinking", resulting in low-effort AI slop being produced by entities that really should know better. The style of management I describe destroys the employee's confidence and agency, so they are much more likely to just submit and blindly accept whatever management/AI/etc. tells them than to do any sort of critical thinking.
- breezybottom 3mo agoPeople are prone to outsource their thinking because it's the path of least resistance.
- Mtinie 3mo agoI interpreted the comment you are responding to as “people want to do what they believe is the right work” rather than simply the mandated work (which they might fundamentally disagree with, directionally). When people have limited agency, apathy increases.