Comment by Jensson
4 years ago
The worst part is that the kind of arguments he was met with is exactly the kind of arguments people use to get headcount and climb the ladder within corporations.
Spending a little time writing a well designed and fully working solution => Good job, now take the next ticket!
Spending a lot of time explaining why something can't be done with this budget => Promoted to manager!
Spending a year of time explaining why the project need a much bigger budget to deliver features => Promoted to director!
This is the main problem.
This is neither the problem nor what the article is talking about. Your argument is so overgeneralized that i don't even know where to start taking it apart.
Cultural issues are almost always tied to performance evaluations at a company, so it is highly relevant.
If this wasn't the problem then their manager would have reprimanded them for posting such nonsense. But either these objections were made by the manager or the manager agrees with them. Why would a manager who is fine with such bullshit still have his job? Because it goes all the way up the chain, otherwise someone would have cut it off a long time ago.