Re:If banks keep cutting employees why do they still have so...
by Terr_ on Friday November 03, 2017 @05:39AM
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While not at a bank, this part sounds very familiar:
> ridiculously crazy per-job pricing models where the job was never actually completed correctly and would often be charged multiple times to fix it
IMO it indicates something about power and incentives, where somebody in the company -- possibly in sales -- benefits from being able to arbitrary rewrite or ignore rules.
They have enough political clout that supposedly standardized systems must accommodate their fundamentally unpredictable exceptions, leading to software that is fragile or insane.
> ridiculously crazy per-job pricing models where the job was never actually completed correctly and would often be charged multiple times to fix it
IMO it indicates something about power and incentives, where somebody in the company -- possibly in sales -- benefits from being able to arbitrary rewrite or ignore rules.
They have enough political clout that supposedly standardized systems must accommodate their fundamentally unpredictable exceptions, leading to software that is fragile or insane.