The Modern Workforce - why does it seem like it's becoming more insane?I'm not sure the workplace, specifically the corporate "white collar" workplace, is reasonable to participate in anymore. Here are some specific examples over the four companies I've worked for that I find intolerable:
Management pushing more responsibility and execution down to focus on more "strategic" work, to the point where consulting companies have come in and told them they are too "top-heavy" and not execution-focused and they just throw the opinion away
Work cultures evolving into an expectation that work is something you're passionate about and fulfilling, almost like a religion
Unreasonable targets and expectations for timelines and project scope based on a constantly smaller set of resources
Roles are larger and more ambiguous in terms of responsibility, to the point where basically everything is everyone's responsibility
Division of labor is rarely divided anymore - if you're in IT, you're expected to be extremely business-savvy to the point where stakeholders expect domain proficiency after a couple months of time versus the person they worked with for ~30+ years
Agile and "flavor of the month" business trends where the company makes the methodology or process the goal to be implemented with no real tools or training, but expects the team to follow it and still finish the core project in time
Race to the bottom in everything you do, while an expectation to grow year over year. I'm not a late stage capitalism believer, but at some point, can we really expect this?
It feels like we are all frogs in slowly boiling water, and this trends are just something our overlords expect us to put up with and adapt to. Does anyone else feel this way? How do you escape it? nickisdone 37 points·1 hour agonot to mention all the programs to "monitor" time or growth can be fudged or are so focused on it is actually hurting maybe not the company as a whole but are hurting the people trying to meet those unrealistic standards and the manager trying to be honest
ReplyGive Award Share ReportSave level 2 s0ulbrother Score hidden·1 minute agoFunny story about time measurement. I’m on a project at work as the developer to monitor our issues using python, sql, power bi and even throw some workday in. As the “expert” on all things programmingeye rolls I am expected to make all ludicrous and tedious demands a reality using tools I’ve never used on systems not designed for it. The fun part is the use of my time. For a project designed to track lead time and blah time and expenses I’m in a lot of pointless meetings with a lot of people. 15 people in a meeting where everyone makes 100k a year for an hour, sure why not. Will all the people participate no, will they all bitch, one or two but enough to attempt to derail the whole thing. Will people use this report, no. Are wasting time and money on it, yes. Do I need or want to be in these meetings, no of course not. Do I voice my concerns that no one will use this because management doesn’t care nor does are budget permit us to use power bi embedded(5k a month at least), yes and I’m ignored. Cost tracking is important but the way we are measuring it is subjective and most people are going to come up with a different methodology and ignore our stuff.