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Re:1k Netflix employees threaten work stoppage over Dave Cha... by bawolff on Sunday October 17, 2021 @09:40PM (#28901424)
Do you really believe your mission unites your employees?

Maybe if you're curing cancer or something, but for most tech workers working on some generic CRUD app, they pay lip service to being motivated by the "mission", but settle for something mildly interesting that hopefully isn't actively doing evil in the world.

Your employees trade time and skill for money. Hearts and souls is a much less common trade.

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Re:1k Netflix employees threaten work stoppage over Dave Cha... by bko on Monday October 18, 2021 @06:11AM (#28903898)
It doesn't matter what the mission is so much as there is one. If the mission is build a beautiful website or a well designed flexible backend, then that's fine. In that case we come in every day and drive towards that.
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Re:1k Netflix employees threaten work stoppage over Dave Cha... by bawolff on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @01:54AM (#28915255)
Perhaps we're using the word "mission" differently. I would call that a goal, and i agree its important.

In most places i have worked, the mission has been some high minded rhetoric about how we're going to change the world for the better that is really disconnected from what we actually do.

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