Tech CEOs are quietly asking employees to step it up or risk getting fired
businessinsider.com
businessinsider.com
"Sometimes there are areas to make progress [where] you have three people making decisions, understanding that and bringing it down to two or one improves efficiency by 20%."
The difference being that more people means slower motion but with enough mass, molasses is pretty speedy (estimated 35 mph in linked article).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood
And I'm only being somewhat facetious when I claim we need more molasses-like leadership: normally slow us down and make us think about things but if there's momentum, pull out the stops and let's go!
We try to manage to slow things down regardless of the scale or the purpose, and that's where (pun intended) molasses has us licked.
I really don't think that many people are going to step it up significantly; fundamentally, the rewards aren't there and the work isn't that interesting. The incentives also attract the wrong sort of crowd
Edit: By 'wrong sort of crowd', I just mean people who won't slave away to make CEOs happy, which is a very good thing.
On top of that they all have different degrees of stack ranking. You can never truly relax
Plus it pays better.
I wouldn't. That's always a pitiful 'train your replacement' carrot. I've watched that happen. The amount paid is not worth my dignity.
>and to claim unemployment
Maybe unemployment has some value where you are. I looked into it once and it was capped at something like $200 a week. Not worth it.
Facebook and Twitter are the above combined with pushback against social media platforms. They won't recover as quick or as well, but they are their own niche and not a good generalize-able representative.
> The search engine giant also changed its employee performance rating system this year, telling managers they were now expected to mark 6% of its employees — more than 10,000 people — in the lowest performance tiers,
Obviously that sort of mindlessly uniform cuts are bad. But, are they bad bad, or "worst option except everything else that's been tried" bad?
They really need a better proofreader. This is a big giant font quote.
If profits were up, these CEOs would be taking all the credit. Funny how it doesn’t work in the other direction.
I don't think they really mean it since they said they had trouble hiring, and even if they do mean it, I know how to live with little money and I have enough savings.
So the negotiation is ongoing.
I'd rather learn how to drive a bus or do something else than negotiate with an employer.
- people get pushed - people quit - start consulting - get hired at a proper wage