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(05-23-2016, 06:20 PM)Ragnarök_62 Wrote:

(05-23-2016, 05:57 PM)Bad Dog Wrote: Two managers, and about 10% of the engineering staff quit in the last month. One manger went to the VP of Ops, threw her badge down, and walked out.

The department VP then published a newsletter about how there would be no need to knock down a wall to make space for more staff, as there was plenty of space, now. they also published more strict policy guidelines. Also, 12 hour rotating shifts would continue.

The VP is an X.

Uh, can you put the policy guidelines here so we can lampoon them?

#ThanksInAdvance

12 hour shifts?  Bwaahahahahahah.  Stupid company.  They have no clue that people's performance goes into a nosedive after a 4 hour  interval without a break. It takes a further dive after 8  hours of work even with breaks. When I supervise, I always call a break after every 2 hours in a 8 hour day. I prefer folks who are awake and haven't turned into zombies.

A company like this is likely already in severe decline, and the 12-hour shifts suggest a desperate effort to survive. That so many engineers leave indicate that the company is not solving its problems with innovation and entrepreneurialism as a company in a growth phase would do.

It will likely become even more rigid and demanding -- and be even more stringent in its demands while offering less in return. It pushes people deep into the realm of diminishing returns. It obviously cannot attract talented people with solutions, and will be stuck with people going nowhere because they are too scared or incompetent to go elsewhere. It will soon have hemorrhaged away so much talent that it will have to improve its work rules to accommodate the people still there.  It's sauve-qui-peut until the company goes bankrupt in a decade or two or gets bought for its assets by some vampire capitalist.