Work Somewhere Dysfunctional
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Work Somewhere Dysfunctional
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#2Yeah, you could also work somewhere not as developed. It's dysfunctional alright, and the pay can be shit. But if the company seriously considers your ideas, you'll be seen as some sort of prophet. Many ideas and systems that you take for granted simply don't exist in developing countries. And they really need them.
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#3> Unfortunately, places with hard problems that haven’t been solved are also — inevitably — kind of dysfunctional.
I disagree wholeheartedly. Many companies (from big tech to fast growing startups) have hard problems that need solving, and they needn't be dysfunctional. In fact some high performing organisations have plenty of hard problems, as solving hard problems usually yield even harder problems to solve.
Sadly disagreeing with the premise makes the entire article a weak claim.
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#4Dysfunctional usually means I have to fight for permission to do the job I was hired to do. Been there, done that. No thanks.
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#5Dysfunctional usually means I have to fight for permission to do the job I was hired to do. Been there, done that. No thanks.
This is what I was thinking too. That and "That's the way we've always done things" organisations where the default answer to anything is "no" even after hard proof of a better way of achieving something. It's exhausting when you can just work somewhere with more autonomy and less bureaucracy.
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#6Cannot read medium without an account. Can we ban it already ?
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#7There’s really no good reason to stick your neck out at a dysfunctional place. It’s like that for a reason. You might get grit from the experience, but more likely you’ll just become a bitter cynical husk. I know, I worked at Oracle.
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#8There’s really no good reason to stick your neck out at a dysfunctional place. It’s like that for a reason. You might get grit from the experience, but more likely you’ll just become a bitter cynical husk. I know, I worked at Oracle.
Every place is dysfunctional to some extent.
Working in truly dysfunctional and trying help the situation has taught me very valuable lessons that are very useful in less dysfunctional organisations.
In other words -- seeing very clearly bad things helps you recognise it when it is less clear. Fixing very bad makes fixing less bad almost effortless.
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#9My favorite test of a workplace is to see how closely coworkers map to characters in the film Jurassic Park.
The more obvious each casting choice is, the more dysfunctional the workplace.
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#10Cannot read medium without an account. Can we ban it already ?
there you go: https://archive.fo/MwT63 :)