We have one program that does A and B and C and D and E. But for some reason we use it for A and C, but not B and D and E. We don’t really do B or E, but we do D and we do that with just spreadsheets and emails.
and then upper management signs us up for a different website and app and thing that everyone has to sign up and make accounts and do training in order to figure out, and this company is handling B for us.
Then they see another new shiny thing and we have to do all of it over again and it’s supposed to handle D, which we were already handling in another way, but now have to learn this new way.
And then upper management just fuckin’ Mommy Blogs their way into a third and a fourth and a fifth website, service, app, sign up, program, AI, bullshit that we all have to make accounts for, learn how to use, and spam all of our emails, so now we have different services for each thing, A through E, and we’re all screaming “why are you doing this?”
Why couldn’t we just use the original program that did all of these things?
It honestly reminds me of when I was really little and my mom would hear these ‘mom tips’ on how to organize chore charts or incentive programs for us as little kids to get us to clean our rooms. Every summer, sometimes twice a summer, she’d sit us all down super duper excited, eyes sparkling, and go “Okay, family, this is how we’re running everything from now on. Like this is how our entire family is gonna do this. This is what we’re all about now.” and then explain some convoluted points system.
It’d last for like two weeks and then we’d go back to just doing what we wanted to do, until Mom got sparkles in her eyes and chased another ineffective system.
I had a boss who would walk around the cubicle farm giving shoulder massages to us programmers. He was male, we were all male. It wasn’t sexual, it was just his way of exerting dominance, like how cats use grooming sometimes. I finally started yelling “ow, fuck!” whenever he would do it to me. He never did it again, not to me or anybody else in the office.
This is currently happening at my job.
We have one program that does A and B and C and D and E. But for some reason we use it for A and C, but not B and D and E. We don’t really do B or E, but we do D and we do that with just spreadsheets and emails.
and then upper management signs us up for a different website and app and thing that everyone has to sign up and make accounts and do training in order to figure out, and this company is handling B for us.
Then they see another new shiny thing and we have to do all of it over again and it’s supposed to handle D, which we were already handling in another way, but now have to learn this new way.
And then upper management just fuckin’ Mommy Blogs their way into a third and a fourth and a fifth website, service, app, sign up, program, AI, bullshit that we all have to make accounts for, learn how to use, and spam all of our emails, so now we have different services for each thing, A through E, and we’re all screaming “why are you doing this?”
Why couldn’t we just use the original program that did all of these things?
It honestly reminds me of when I was really little and my mom would hear these ‘mom tips’ on how to organize chore charts or incentive programs for us as little kids to get us to clean our rooms. Every summer, sometimes twice a summer, she’d sit us all down super duper excited, eyes sparkling, and go “Okay, family, this is how we’re running everything from now on. Like this is how our entire family is gonna do this. This is what we’re all about now.” and then explain some convoluted points system.
It’d last for like two weeks and then we’d go back to just doing what we wanted to do, until Mom got sparkles in her eyes and chased another ineffective system.
That is a great way to describe what is happening.
I think bosses are often bored, and they need a sense of pride and accomplishment.
I had a boss who would walk around the cubicle farm giving shoulder massages to us programmers. He was male, we were all male. It wasn’t sexual, it was just his way of exerting dominance, like how cats use grooming sometimes. I finally started yelling “ow, fuck!” whenever he would do it to me. He never did it again, not to me or anybody else in the office.
They take marketing bait way too easily.
1000% more efficient, you say? You’ll train, you say? Out with that old shit we were using!
It’s amazing to me to see how often high level managers in sales organizations are extremely susceptible to obvious and basic BS sales tactics…
you don’t become upper management by being discerning, critical. or pragmatic. That’s how you get labeled ‘difficult’.
You get there by Going Along With The Latest and Greatest and being an Innovator.
This plus needing to show off some kind of thing to their management