You might not like working at Railway

Can anyone just have a job now? Or work at a company that actually does something rather than spinning out entire blog posts about their supposed amazing mission? I mean, I just slogged through this mind-numbing blog post (https://blog.railway.app/p/how-we-work-volume-iii) on "how we work," and I still don't have a bloody clue what they actually do.

Seriously, what happened to just having jobs? You know, workers and managers—simple as pie. This straightforward setup has been around since the dawn of time. But no, now we need a novel-length explanation on their work process without ever getting to the point of what they produce. They babble on with gems like, "We aspire to take the limiter off every person at this company and see where the open road takes us." Oh, really? Does the open road lead to anywhere useful, like, say, making something?

Why can't they just say, "We make biscuits. We get orders for biscuits. We have a bunch of people who make the biscuits, and we have managers to oversee them," instead of spouting, "We empower people to reach their own personal development milestones every single day" or some other such corporate drivel? I mean, who writes this stuff? Do they have a department of professional waffle writers?

And what’s with this obsession with "delivering a mission"? Are they running a company or leading a cult? I half expect them to start their meetings with a chant. Maybe throw in some motivational smoke signals for good measure. Can’t we just go back to the days when companies did things and left the philosophical babble to the self-help section?

At this rate, I’m expecting their next blog post to explain how their innovative "synergistic approach to holistic biscuit-making" is revolutionizing the snack industry. Newsflash: It’s a biscuit. Just bake it, sell it, and spare us the soul-searching soliloquies.