“The people that are the most susceptible to the corporate bullshit tended to choose the worst solutions to those problems on a consistent basis,” Littrell said.
Hmmmmmmmm.
Well that goes some way partially to explaining why management at large corporations almost as a rule are uselessly incompetent.
I’m a programmer. I’m literally paid to think. The number of times I’ve had to attend a corporate wide event and been asked to just not think about the shit they are spewing is unacceptable–and every time the sales guys just lap it all up.
Oh interesting I thought the job of a programmer was to be paid to fix AI slop vibe code made by clueless management who would have done better by coming to you and asking you to think in the first place.
you want sales guys to be as stupid as potential customers.
But also, when they ‘think’ of something, it’s basically your fault of their idea doesn’t work, even if you told them why it wouldn’t work.
I had a … VP of Marketing, basically, once suggest to me that I ‘implement the blockchain’ … into our entire PostgreSQL system.
… These people are an idiot nobility, its just their thought patterns that are inbred, this time.
Uuh I feel you, my older job got worse and worse until it had up to 25 meetings a week… All bullshit.
When I complained it was first brushed off as not true, then I screenshotted a week with 25 meetings (senior software dev, but not manager) and that got some attention finally and actions were taken to reduce the number of meetings.
So they started with “stand up meetings” doesn’t count, so those 5 meetings does not count … (So down to 20, right?) Because they are not meetings, right? Stand up Meetings…
And all mandatory of course, except they said they were not, miss obe and you’d get problems and childish lectures about corpo culture and crap.
Can’t make that shit up. And yeah, people running on hot air love corporate speak and corporate everything ugh, probably they think they’re finally productive or something.
/Rant off!
I’m no longer there, good luck to you!
“Standups” by video call where everyone is sitting. That sounds like corporate thinking.
Just this week I had someone try and book a half hour call with me to get the url for a repository.
Not surprised. Sales is the art of presenting an emotional call to agreement and making people think they got there intellectually. Corporate bullshit is very similar