| This article is bashing BigCo while letting move-fast-and-break-things Startup inc. off the hook. Just because the fires are different every day at Startup Inc. doesn't mean we're not being conditioned to endure suffering. Case in point, a previous BigCo on call roster that I was required to partake in, sucks, makes you lose will to live, keeps you up at night, nothing documented, on-call phone ringing 5-7 of the nights in the week. I tried to improve this process and was mildly sucessful even if that was just to get these incidents recorded. Fast forward to my next job at Startup Inc. and their on call roster, sucks, makes you lose will to live, keeps you up at night, nothing documented, on-call phone ringing less but still often enough and with higher urgency. The source of the two problems was different most of the time, one being a lack of training and effectively giving children knives. The other being moving fast and breaking things resulting in things breaking after it was declared that version x.x went out without any issues just like the CEO wanted. |