Comment by inetknght
1 month ago
> because that's an unacceptable level of blockage.
You shound like a manager. Let me know when you identify and quickly solve all the reasons that the team frequently gets blocked. Until then, we have Tim.
1 month ago
> because that's an unacceptable level of blockage.
You shound like a manager. Let me know when you identify and quickly solve all the reasons that the team frequently gets blocked. Until then, we have Tim.
> You sound like a manager.
Yeah, I think that's a good read.
Give management credit for being smart. They mostly do manage only to promote the most egregiously avid Taylorites from among us.
> Give management credit for being smart.
Respectfully, this is being the exact opposite of smart. Pay attention to the fact that by all accounts the Tim role is actually a force multiplier and output booster for the team. Pay also attention to the fact that you're arguing that Tim should be fired as should the whole team just because... Your Jira metrics are off? This is not what I would call being smart, by far.
You assume management optimizes poorly for desiderata you share.
You also assume by "smart" I intend no pejoration.
Were you to hear me speak these words, rather than read them as here typed, the latter point at least would need no clarification. Unfortunately, text like this is salt without savor.
Is a Taylorite a known expression or are you riffing off the idea of a Taylor series? Haha.
Taylor is a famous management researcher, that created an entirely new school of management, which by its turn evolved even before his death to become something completely different from the theories held by Taylor himself.
Just to point out in reference to the sibling comment, Taylorism is not a pejorative term, it's the correct name of a school of management. Any pejorative implication on that name is a perfectly deserved result of the quality of the ideas in it.
It's a reference to "scientific management" aka Taylorism, the pejorative name by which that now-universal practice was rightly known the last time labor had something resembling the power we deserve in this country.