[oceanghost]

> so utterly inhuman t I worked for a company once that moved offices-- literally, there was no workplace to go to for 2 weeks (keep in mind this company made hardware).

The C level management sends out a company wide e-mail saying "the move will not be tolerated as an excuse for missing deadlines."

God I wish I had a copy of that e-mail.

[setr]

tbh that's probably not all that unfair -- whoever created the timelines should have already accounted for it, and if the timeline was created long enough ago (because the project is sufficiently long) before the move was known, there should be significantly more than two weeks buffer included for issues exactly like this. Of course, it's also that person who should inevitably be held accountable for the fuck-up (unless the move was sudden, in which case it's the fault of whoever initiated the move.. perhaps the C*O :)

At least in my mind the only time its the fault of the employee himself only when they slip their own agreed-upon schedules, without warning or reason

[oceanghost]

In a rational world yes... The company scheduled 8hrs/day of work on a project in its schedules-- no time taken out for breaks, mandatory trainings, meetings, etc. They wouldn't even account for things like vacation time, holidays, or even pregnancy. I remember one engineer became pregnant, and she still had a development schedule of 8/hrs a day in the estimates. This problem was pretty obvious 6 months out or so.

You'd say it is just bad management-- and it is-- but its a control technique.

[setr]

I’m not sure how much control it really creates... it seems more like a recipe for slipping milestones

[oceanghost]

Well then let me elaborate... it's a gaslighting technique.

It creates a no-win scenario for the workers where the employee/team/etc is always blamed for managerial incompetence.