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Morale plummets at Google as workers complain bosses are 'inept' and 'boring'

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Re: Morale plummets at Google as workers complain bosses are 'inept' and 'boring'

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Post by 0xbadcafebee »

> “I guess I will just hang around and do my job until Google no longer wants me,” she finished her post.

Welcome to having a regular non-union job? There's several billion other people in the club. It's not exciting, and you will be let go whenever the company wants a boost in their financials. There's also no free snacks or chefs, but you (at Google) still get a bigger salary than anyone else in the world with your job, if that helps. If you want fulfillment, excitement, vision, etc, you could always change jobs to a smaller company whose reason for being isn't selling ads.

Re: Morale plummets at Google as workers complain bosses are 'inept' and 'boring'

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Post by kurthr »

To be fair disparagement for middle management has been around for ages. Nobody (10 years ago) I knew wanted to be promoted into management, if only because it was so hard to manage. It seemed like there was an outside hiring binge of middle managers who wanted to grow empires (from Amazon/MS etc).

Hmmm... would be interesting to go look at LinkedIn data to see if it's really true. Of course it wouldn't fix this problem. Workers are now unhappy with senior management, which is new. Although, I think some of the empire building resulted in a lot of the pandemic over hiring (and departures of long term staff).

Re: Morale plummets at Google as workers complain bosses are 'inept' and 'boring'

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Post by flkiwi »

mouse_ wrote: post #5
option wrote: post #2

Their CEO needs to go, he has no tech vision

No, he has money vision. They're at an all time high right now. He's not going anywhere

We'll see how short-term thinking works out for them in a decade. "Rich but irrelevant" isn't a good place to end up. But at least shareholders in 2024 got a percentage more in gains.

Re: Morale plummets at Google as workers complain bosses are 'inept' and 'boring'

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Post by not2b »

zx8080 wrote: post #4
option wrote: post #2

Their CEO needs to go, he has no tech vision

CEO helps profits and ensures stock price. Engineers only spend money. Who should go? /s

I know, /s, but:

If you have someone who aimlessly kills products and fires people but lacks vision or a decent plan, you could find someone much cheaper, and save tens of millions on executive compensation. If operating margin is so crucial now, then it seems cutting pay of top executives is the easiest way to achieve that with the least damage to the company.

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