We’re Optimizing Ourselves to Death (2019)

Re:We’re Optimizing Ourselves to Death (2019) by dvtrn on Sunday November 22, 2020 @06:20PM (#25182034)

Probably. Maybe. I have no clue. I only recently found out there have been three people in this middle management role before me; not a single one of them stayed around for two years. I’m on month 14 and started working on the resume this morning. :/

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Re:We’re Optimizing Ourselves to Death (2019) by lotsofpulp on Sunday November 22, 2020 @06:22PM (#25182045)

Certain middle management positions are setup to be “fall guy” positions. Technically, everyone is a fall guy for the person above them, but some more than others.

For example, the budget gets decided a few levels up, but the the immediate manager knows they aren’t being given the resources to succeed. Then their strategy, if they have the ability, might be to hire someone who they can point a finger to when it inevitably fails.

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Re:We’re Optimizing Ourselves to Death (2019) by dvtrn on Sunday November 22, 2020 @06:34PM (#25182103)

Semi-related but I also wonder much longer we’ll be hearing the use of “the pandemic” as reasons for leadership decision making.

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Re:We’re Optimizing Ourselves to Death (2019) by efitz on Sunday November 22, 2020 @10:54PM (#25183421)

Time to make 3 envelopes: http://wikibon.org/wiki/v/Prepare_three_envelopes

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Re:We’re Optimizing Ourselves to Death (2019) by beckingz on Sunday November 22, 2020 @11:58PM (#25183728)

This is great.

The morale of the story is that it takes a year to figure out that organization-person fit is bad?

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