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I really can't stand all of these silos that seem to exist for the benefit of MBA-culture idiots who don't understand the first thing about computers, at the ex

I really can't stand all of these silos that seem to exist for the benefit of MBA-culture idiots who don't understand the first thing about computers, at the expense of programmers. "You can't X. You're a Y!" Well, fuck you. All of this warring-camps idiocy, "hire a real X" nonsense, and all of these damn silos, just exist so a bunch of people who aren't smart enough to manage technology can feel like they understand shit. They don't. They hire some $785/hour consultant whose diagnosis is, "you need better system administration". So they go out and hire a sys-admin or two with a "track record" and the problem is "magically" solved. Programming was supposed to be the magic skill that allowed one to move fluidly about the industrial/technological economy. It showed that you could grapple with abstraction, learn quickly on your own, and get hard things done and do them well. It conferred mobility and job security. Then those useless "be a team player and syngerize the verticals while the rubber hits the road" monkey-morons came in and had to fucking siloize everything, just to play a divide-and-conquer game, create the sense that we were incapable of handling "the big picture", and reduce our bargaining power. This distracts us from the fact that those people aren't at all necessary. Good business people go out and solve important business problems; the bad ones meddle in our affairs for intimidation's sake.

incision 13y ago
>Then those useless "be a team player and syngerize the verticals while the rubber hits the road" monkey-morons came in and had to fucking siloize everything, just to play a divide-and-conquer game, create the sense that we were incapable of handling "the big picture", and reduce our bargaining power. This distracts us from the fact that those people aren't at all necessary. So true. I worked in a largely silo-free environment up until about 2007. New management transformed an effective ~25 person team into half a dozen kingdoms of 30+ each in a little over one year. I left and discovered just how unique my environment had been prior to the regime change. It's hard for me to imagine how any organization which has gone down this path can hope to reverse it. It's desirable to both the managers who use it make themselves relevant and an unfortunate majority of workers who take comfort in their pigeon-holes.
seivan 13y ago
Thank you.

incision 13y ago

>Then those useless "be a team player and syngerize the verticals while the rubber hits the road" monkey-morons came in and had to fucking siloize everything, just to play a divide-and-conquer game, create the sense that we were incapable of handling "the big picture", and reduce our bargaining power. This distracts us from the fact that those people aren't at all necessary. So true. I worked in a largely silo-free environment up until about 2007. New management transformed an effective ~25 person team into half a dozen kingdoms of 30+ each in a little over one year. I left and discovered just how unique my environment had been prior to the regime change. It's hard for me to imagine how any organization which has gone down this path can hope to reverse it. It's desirable to both the managers who use it make themselves relevant and an unfortunate majority of workers who take comfort in their pigeon-holes.

seivan 13y ago

Thank you.