Well, congratulations for getting promoted.

All you get today for doing a good job is more work and the hate of your fellow workers because you're the new gold standard they have to conform to.

You're mostly old fashioned in the sense that you seem to have gotten enough time to actually do your job well.

Still the case. But by now, not following the process is a requirement. On all levels.

Workers cannot follow the proper processes because they have to cut corners to keep up with the required pace or get fired.

But that's not really a big problem because QA also has to cut corners to keep pace and won't find their blunders.

And so on.

Yes...
looks left, looks right
let's "talk"...

Yeah, these pesky workers and their corner cutting. And we have everything in place. Really! A process for everything!

Work protocol? Sure, we have a work protocol in place, here, see? They have to do this, this and this! Apparently they don't. What did he say? He only has time to do 1, 2 and 3 and has to skip 4 because the time allotted isn't enough? Well, then I guess quality control would have to catch that!

So quality control is to blame. We have a protocol for that in place, here, you see? What did he say? That he has to inspect 5 systems but in the time he has he can only do 3, so he just checks the boxes of the other 2? Oh...

And so on.

Almost correct. But it's more along the lines of "I could spend 20 minutes crawling through this crate to inspect it, problem is, I have to do 4 planes an hour. Well, the last 3 were ok and my time's up, so I guess the 4th will be ok, too".

Hire employees? But we must do more with less! The consultant company we paid big money for said so!

It's quite impossible at the given cost demands, as can easily be shown in exhibit A, i.e. Boeing.

The comparison is actually apt. In both cases, workers did what they could to work around impossible demands of management in an attempt to keep their jobs.

When your options are to either follow the rules and fail to meet your targets, so you will almost invariably get fired, or to ignore the rules and meet your target, and only get fired if for some reasons the shit hits the fan, which option do you choose?

A policy is moot if your worker cannot follow it.

Given that more and more workers are facing the "more with less" bullshit, more and more of them are facing a dilemma: Follow the policy and get fired for not meeting quotas or tossing policies aside, cutting corners where there can't be any cut and hope for the best, i.e. that nothing bad happens.

Let's compare the options this worker has: Get fired for sure because you can't meet the ridiculous quotas or get fired maybe when the shit hits the fan and the plane comes down to crash and burn.

Most people will choose option two.

And this is why your policies mean jack when you don't give your workers the option to heed them.

This right there. It's a direct result of the "10% more with 10% less" mantra that consultant companies have been beating the drum for, for decades now. The ridiculous notion that it is eternally possible to produce 10% more output with 10% less personnel, every year.

At some point, that idea breaks apart. And the only way that 10% fewer people can produce 10% more output is by cutting corners on something that has already been turned into a circle years ago.

Have you tried visiting Twitter after hanging out on Bluesky for a while? OMG, it feels like a dystopia. Was it always that bad and did I just forget, or has it gotten that much worse since I left?

The Bluesky Mir is coming ;)

Huh? You're upset that Jack left Bluesky because people there didn't like him? I'm confused.

Sounds like Jack went full Kanye, and got booted out of Bluesky.

He didn't get "booted", but it was a rather amusing situation, where he dropped a bunch of seed money on Jay's project to make Bluesky... only to find out that the vast majority of the people who flocked there don't actually like him, and weren't afraid to let him know ;)