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Quite so, but nonetheless Apple very much strikes me as a high-pressure workplace. There's a reason why they ship what they ship when they ship it.
by serve_yay 12y ago
Quite so, but nonetheless Apple very much strikes me as a high-pressure workplace. There's a reason why they ship what they ship when they ship it.
- Retric 12y agoAn air traffic controller messes up and they risk hundreds of lives and 100's of millions of dollars in property. That's a high high-pressure workplace, Tech is just a combination of greed and poor managment.
- serve_yay 12y agoEhhh. Zooming out this far just makes the phrase meaningless in the context of tech, which seems counterproductive since as you may have noticed we tend to discuss tech around here.
- rodgerd 12y agoFine. Writing air traffic control systems is tech, and is pressure. The difference is artificial pressure driven by concerns like "I will look bad to my boss" or "or EPS might dip a fraction of a present", as opposed to "people will die".
- genericresponse 12y agoYou're mistaking what it should (or rather shouldn't) be with what it actually is. It shouldn't be high pressure because the stakes aren't that high, but it is. The poor management is the causal reason.
- sswaner 12y agoHigh pressure describes an environment that can exist anywhere, independent of the decisions to make it that way. I like to listen to a famous controller at JFK. I detect no pressure in his voice. Every line of work has a share of high pressure environments. There are likely many people who could say "You want high pressure, try teaching pre-school!"
- tomelders 12y agoSounds like high stress. I'd make a distinction between stress and pressure.