Re:Why Taxpayers Pay McKinsey $3M a Year for a Recent Colleg...
by Scoundreller on Thursday December 05, 2019 @01:56PM
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> that the average corporate worker bee is in fact not competent enough to do the most basic tasks, such as refer to documentation, without hand-holding.
I think a lot of this ability is selected-out or outright discouraged in a lot of environments.
If the new employee starts fixing broken things, they’re often crushed for stepping out of line.
And god help them if the problem becomes worse (caused by them or not) when it wasn’t their job to touch it.
New employee: why do we do X in Y way?
Veteran: because that’s the way we always did it
Reminds me of when I made my own way-finding signs for visitors. While my director loved it and wrote me a thank you card, that didn’t stop janitorial from ripping them down. While they were 100% helpful, they were 100% unapproved.
I still oil door hinges and clean some of the uncleaned areas myself. And fix other things that aren’t “my problem”, but it’s a fine line.
I think a lot of this ability is selected-out or outright discouraged in a lot of environments.
If the new employee starts fixing broken things, they’re often crushed for stepping out of line.
And god help them if the problem becomes worse (caused by them or not) when it wasn’t their job to touch it.
New employee: why do we do X in Y way?
Veteran: because that’s the way we always did it
Reminds me of when I made my own way-finding signs for visitors. While my director loved it and wrote me a thank you card, that didn’t stop janitorial from ripping them down. While they were 100% helpful, they were 100% unapproved.
I still oil door hinges and clean some of the uncleaned areas myself. And fix other things that aren’t “my problem”, but it’s a fine line.