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[-] SuspiciousUser@lemmy.ml 105 points 2 years ago

This feels like an extremely basic thing to miss. Something 10 seconds of thought would have fixed.

[-] ipha@lemmy.world 106 points 2 years ago

I guarantee you whoever pushed this to prod knew exactly what was going to happen, but the super genius(🤮) in charge is always right and must never be questioned.

[-] PM_STEAM_KEYS@lemmy.world 41 points 2 years ago

Does anyone else think a lot about the incredible irony of western freedom-loving democracies being fine and dandy with the fact that nearly 100% of workplaces are top-down dictatorships? Even when you're "given" freedom to act independently, it's always predicated upon your decisions and actions aligning with the wishes of your superiors. The second that isn't the case, you get your marching orders, and you can either comply or fuck off.

It would be one thing if employment were "optional" to some degree, or there were always more jobs than people to do them, but so many people are one missed paycheck or medical emergency away from homelessness, you basically have no choice but to grin and bear it.

[-] ComradeBunnie@aussie.zone 8 points 2 years ago

My upper manager always goes on about "empowerment" being part of the new direction for the business, but wouldn't you know, we still get drawn and quartered for the smallest errors.

[-] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 2 years ago

Are you sure they didn’t mispronounce “employee disembowelment”?

[-] ComradeBunnie@aussie.zone 1 points 2 years ago

Perhaps - I am notorious for my issues processing verbal communication!

[-] ChrissieWF@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago

It would be one thing if employment were “optional” to some degree, or there were always more jobs than people to do them, but so many people are one missed paycheck or medical emergency away from homelessness, you basically have no choice but to grin and bear it.

Well, it is "optional" to some degree. I know plenty of people across Europe who are doing oke enough on basic support. It's not an amazing living but it's not like you are out on the streets. And a medical emergency will not cripple you with debt.
At least far as actually freedom-loving democracies go (as in, free to abort, free to express your identity, free to protest, ...).

[-] flauschibunny@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

There are solutions to level the playing field like unions or European works councils https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_council . but it's still top down in the end. Always seemed strange to me, perhaps it's the way to get things done...

[-] grue@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

The real solution isn't those things; it's structuring the businesseses as employee-owned co-ops.

[-] sup@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 years ago

The supreme leader is always right!

[-] FlihpFlorp@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago

All hail plankton

[-] Mereo@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

So much this. The leader on top is the one who instills the corporate culture. In this case, the engineers have no say in the matter. They need to do what they're told.

[-] maxprime@lemmy.ml 28 points 2 years ago

Okay but that would involve whoever is in charge there to think longer than 10 seconds.

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