If this dude “loved every minute of the 80+ hour work weeks of the early 2000’s”, feels like I can safely ignore anything he has to say about work
Comment on Amazon exec says it’s time for RTO: ‘I don’t have data to back it up, but I know it’s better’
sonals@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Hey, I worked for this moron and left because of these moronic statements.
Absolutely mind boggling that this company is “run on data” yet there’s no data besides anecdotes to support this backwards idea.
To make it even funnier, here’s an Amazon Director apologizing on LinkedIn because they thought forcing people to come into an office was the right thing to do.
MysticKetchup@lemmy.world 6 months ago
mosiacmango@lemm.ee 6 months ago
He was in his early 20s based on his stated age, bro-ing out with beers and code, likely making gobs of startup money when you could still reasonably buy a house, which is likely worth 10x what it was then.
Now he likely makes 700k or more, living in his basically free house, and needs to put on a show for current 20 somethings like that is something good that can still happen to them.
RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Word. But people change.
GlassHalfHopeful@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Exactly. I reread this twice because I felt like I certainly had to have read it wrong in the first place… which I had not…
afk_strats@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Working from home also had, from my observation, a massive and materially beneficial impact on females specifically working mothers, who bare a disproportionate share of domestic work.
Ew
Cylusthevirus@kbin.social 6 months ago
Every single time some dude writes "females" I see this.
peopleproblems@lemmy.world 6 months ago
What I don’t get, is that, female clearly applies to any living species right?
Women refers to female humans.
It’s so easy to say “women” because you are talking about people. The word “female” has no such implication.
I truly think the repetitive and serious use of “females” instead of women is actually an attempt at degrading the status of women in society.
Aviandelight@mander.xyz 6 months ago
Saying “females” is just one step above saying “bitches.” That’s how it hits my ear at any rate.
afk_strats@lemmy.world 6 months ago
OMG perfect
Kichae@kbin.social 6 months ago
In business, all data are vanity metrics. If they make you look good, you slap that shit on everything; if they make you look bad, you "don't have it".
It's just that sometimes you can use negative data to make decisions that look good to those above you, and sometimes you know that you can't.
Poggervania@kbin.social 6 months ago
Hell, businesses might even keep asking you to keep changing criteria and numbers until they hear what they want to hear. I literally am dealing with this right now for a local retailer; they keep insisting that I keep changing criteria and numbers relating to how many sales they closed until they hear an answer. When I gave them the raw numbers, the owner and manager were straight-up in denial about it and said I was wrong and that the data is off because they felt it should have been a different number than presented.
Fucking frustrating and stupid, but that’s how upper management and corporate people can be apparently.
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Compromise is the moment a group has given up on finding the best solutionWhat a toxic and zero-sum viewpoint. What a stark admission that someone is unable to be willing to consider the possibility that someone else might be right, or at least partially right. If this philosophy was prevalent at Microsoft in 2010+, it would explain a number of Microsoft corporate decisions. Putting a smartphone touchscreen UI on a computer server product (Windows 2012) being just one obvious example.
lemann@lemmy.one 6 months ago
Strongly agree. If anything, compromise is necessary for finding the best solution for everyone, especially as we’re all different.
That manager thinking that compromise is “giving up” needs to get out of the selfish delusion and come back to reality. Feel sorry for the subordinates!
Aceticon@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The reasons to be accepted for a mid-level and above management position have long stopped including “being a leader”.
GoodEye8@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Doesn’t it also contradict his own decision? Below that quote he also says:
Forcing RTO is maintaining the status quo, which itself is a compromise you make to not do anything about the changes that happen as time goes on. He is literally making a compromise to preserve cohesion. But I guess in his mind him making compromises with himself don’t count, the only compromise that matters is the one he has to make with others.
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
if someone said this to me I’d be like “oh okay great. I won’t compromise then. I’m working from home.”