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Don't know if this person worked at FB, but FB literally has its walls covered in propaganda posters, designed to "inspire" but I find them to be disturbing. https://www.businessinsider.com/facebooks-propaganda-posters...
Not as bad as I imagined, the Theranos wall is worse I think. > ”Do or do not, there is no try” https://makersplace.com/product/yoda-quote-theranos-headquar...
There comes a time in everyone's career when they realize that the "emergency situation" they are in never really ends. There is always a fire to put out. There is always a P0 bug that will sink the entire company if not fixed. There is always a release that absolutely cannot be delayed for any reason, and everyone must work nights and weekends to get it out. The best you can do is learn to tune out management bullsh…
Inspired by Marx I could say that manager work is removing workers from their alienation and not work in unoimportant things.
> I have similar issues with the agile methodology and its 2-week “sprints”. Why are we sprinting… ALL. THE. TIME. Can’t we at least mix in some brisk walks every now and then a la high intensity interval training? Following the fitness metaphor, the concept of periodization is an overwhelmingly common training strategy. Periodization turns fitness plans into smaller cycles that include active and passive periods of…
If I plan, I get to jog.
But I have to work extra hours to have a plan because my day is full of sprinting.
So I can work twice as long and jog or I can work the regular amount and sprint.
And we reward people who are sprinting because they go twice as fast and that's obviously very valuable because we are optics oriented programmers.
Too much of what I call emergency-led management.
Until you've been through another 30 years.
You haven't even reached mid-burn yet...
There comes a time in everyone's career when they realize that the "emergency situation" they are in never really ends. There is always a fire to put out. There is always a P0 bug that will sink the entire company if not fixed. There is always a release that absolutely cannot be delayed for any reason, and everyone must work nights and weekends to get it out. The best you can do is learn to tune out management bullsh…
This was an eye opening moment when it happened to me. Almost nothing has the impact it purports to have. Percentage-wise, very few things are the emergency/fire that people make them out to be, at least in the grand scheme of things. I think part of it is that people get too wrapped up in their local world and don't see the big picture. For instance "If we don't get this widget added to the thingamabob in the next 3…
Until you've been through another 30 years.
You haven't even reached mid-burn yet...
I was recently berated and given negative performance ratings for rolling something out 2 weeks late. The reason I rolled it out 2 weeks late was because we were in holiday season and the company CTO had asked people to exercise caution during holidays. But lo and behold, my management didn't like that I was cautious. They gave me a negative rating. I asked, "Why was the 2 weeks so important? Are there any customers…
Same here. We're always getting mixed signals... "if you need to delay, delay. you're the best judge of that." And "we have commitments we have to hit at the end of the quarter."
The cynic, the street smart corporate bilinguist hears those two messages and understands plainly that only the latter is true.
The person who takes things at face value is perplexed: They have been told not to hurt themselves, but also told that if they hurt themselves the company will be pleased. How bizarre, to be told opposing requirements, and that half of people are not also perplexed.