We have a senior, very capable (i.e. 5x) engineer, "Gust", who has served his notice (4 weeks), and will be leaving. Our company likes to "test" people in their new roles when b...
Sharing it because of the delicious delicious capitalist tears.
I am always amazed by how stingy companies are with their staff. How easy would it be to have just promoted the guy - how cheap would it have been compared to dealing with this mess? You didn't in the name of "optics" and now 3 people are frustrated instead of just the one AND the project is burning money. It's easy to know that what you're doing is unfair, it's 1,000,000 times harder to get the institution to admit it's unfair and it did. Fuck that place and anybody who's ever made a decision there.
They only considered ‘optics’ in the eyes of their manager and the shareholders, not in the eyes of the employee and all the people who knew the employee.
I am always amazed by how stingy companies are with their staff. How easy would it be to have just promoted the guy - how cheap would it have been compared to dealing with this mess? You didn't in the name of "optics" and now 3 people are frustrated instead of just the one AND the project is burning money. It's easy to know that what you're doing is unfair, it's 1,000,000 times harder to get the institution to admit it's unfair and it did. Fuck that place and anybody who's ever made a decision there.
way more than 3. literally everyone involved feels burned. someone at that level was running a whole team.
They only considered ‘optics’ in the eyes of their manager and the shareholders, not in the eyes of the employee and all the people who knew the employee.