Comment by jgeada
13 days ago
OK, now explain where management's salary comes from.
They don't produce anything, at best they're taste arbiters and at worst parasitic middle men that happen to control the budget; funny how that always means they get more of it.
The best long term performing companies are run by technical people that happen to be competent managers. As soon as the professional managerial class takes over they quickly figure out their most profitable move is to cheapen out on engineering and trade in the future for bonuses right now; they'll be long gone when the company craters.
Absolutely. Some genius outsources IT to Malaysia....I ask for an IP address to be statically assigned to a test machine and the ticket is opened and closed.....next day the IP has changed. Repeat x20 till we give up - telephone calls and complaints notwithstanding. Someone closes 20 tickets and looks productive because that's the way they're being managed.
I bet the MBA who made this happen got a promotion and wouldn't understand how they crippled everyone.
I admit this is an old story but IMO it does show you how management by people who don't know and don't care screws a company quietly. That's a famous company that did in fact have a major problem.