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by drewcoo 673 days ago
So the CEO that stepped over the water didn't even tell anyone about the problem? That just seems wrong. Would this person call the cops if he saw burglars breaking into a neighbor's house? Some things are everyone's job to report even if someone else will clean it up.

Did anyone at the company with the guerilla design effort realize that there was a huge communication problem or did they just spank the guerillas?

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In the first one it was a very small office so it was taken care of immediately.

In the second one that's exactly what I took away from it - I escalated immediately, saying this was a concrete example of two separate communication failures. It didn't turn out particularly well and I wish it had been handled better (it was lost in a culture war between two execs, which was the cause of the original communication gap in the first place) but I feel like I did my part and no gorillas were spanked, just left feeling upset.