A career ending mistake

Re:A career ending mistake by hinkley on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @11:44AM (#30430087)

You have to be careful here because you're trying to make sure that people are happy, not fat and happy. Complacency eventually threatens the livelihood of your employees, and that is stressful at any company, but the magnitude of that change is greater when everyone has been bopping along without a care in the world.

Being happy is not a capitalistic goal and the capitalists will eat your lunch. Being happy and kicking ass is close enough to be harder to sabotage.

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Re:A career ending mistake by znq on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @02:02PM (#30432082)

Thanks for your input! I think we have been at those points ("fat and happy") a couple of times and I noticed it, because I especially got bored myself. Luckily I have to say, we quickly got to a point again where another problem or challenge presented itself.

Also our business doesn't have huge profit margins like some of the big tech companies. So financially we're always somewhere between "it is not critical, yet", but also never reach the "100% comfortable".

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