Re:Google/Fitbit will monetise health data and harm consumers
by randycupertino on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @07:40PM
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> the desires and realities of Google are so different that even what they say is untrustworthy because no one there knows whats actually going on anymore.
I can absolutely see this happening due to their sheer size losing control as everything is probably silo'd and confusing.
Due to a tax issue last year, I urgently needed a specific from a former GIANT company I worked for per my accountant.
It took over 6 days of calling, emailing and getting transferred around the bureaucracy because they had recently outsourced that HR function to another company and moved all the data and the Director of HR for that entire 1000 person department couldn't even get me the form and didn't know what to do! She and I had to put in a ticket together to the help desk and eventually someone at the outsourced help desk escalated it enough that we found out the physical forms were actually in transit to the east bay offsite location and had not been digitized yet which is why they were not able to provide the form until a 14-business day turnaround.
It was the most absurd and frustrating experience and definitely made me happy I'd moved to a more midsized org. We might not be an industry Titan but at least are small enough to be functional and not get entirely lost in bureaucracy.
I can absolutely see this happening due to their sheer size losing control as everything is probably silo'd and confusing.
Due to a tax issue last year, I urgently needed a specific from a former GIANT company I worked for per my accountant.
It took over 6 days of calling, emailing and getting transferred around the bureaucracy because they had recently outsourced that HR function to another company and moved all the data and the Director of HR for that entire 1000 person department couldn't even get me the form and didn't know what to do! She and I had to put in a ticket together to the help desk and eventually someone at the outsourced help desk escalated it enough that we found out the physical forms were actually in transit to the east bay offsite location and had not been digitized yet which is why they were not able to provide the form until a 14-business day turnaround.
It was the most absurd and frustrating experience and definitely made me happy I'd moved to a more midsized org. We might not be an industry Titan but at least are small enough to be functional and not get entirely lost in bureaucracy.