| > It doesn't make sense unless you want to telegraph the message that employees are fungible and you don't really care about people. I actually makes total sense and a lot of it. I see the take that management doesn't know about knowledge being lost, they don't understand this, they don't understand that. I believed this was case until I started to work for a company that is literally 200 years old. At some point between joining that company and deciding to leave the previous, I got it -- nobody is actually that stupid, neither people are evil or anything. Employee being a row in an excel sheet is an important goal that every big company strives to achieve and all the functions, processes and products that are contrary to that dogma are actively rejected by the system as dangerous. For the company to be the company it must never depend on this particular employee being very smart. Every bit of knowledge that is not written down and confirmed to be in accordance to The Policy is a risk and should be forgotten. That's the intended way. And of course the only way to discover the market price for real is to spend the money. The cost of losing mister special employee is negative anyway, and for the offchance it's positive, it's worth it. The evil thing is not this, the evil thing is not being upfront about it. Get a union, negotiate yourself a nice row in the excel sheet and be happy about it or make your own company. |
It had lots of frustration and flaws, but consistently, repeatedly, delivered equipment, costing tens of thousands of dollars, that people based their entire careers on.
The trouble came, when they tried to change to a more modern model.
They made a lot of money, for a few years, but ended up crashing and burning. Their brand suffered extinction-level damage.
I’m really hoping that they get their mojo back. There’s a better than even chance they will.