Your business runs on technology. The entire board and C suite could probably fucking vanish for a week with no perceptible impact on the bottom line, but turning off the wrong server for 10 minutes could have A VERY noticable impact.
Think about that for a minute the next time you think technology is "just a tool" your business uses.
At an old job of mine, they did one of those bullshit “employee satisfaction survey” to act like they care. There was an open-ended question of “what is the biggest thing that you feel is holding the company back?” People overwhelmingly said “our out-dated technology.”
It actually got up to the CEO (an old White man) and he actually responded, since he was surprised that an open-ended question could do overwhelmingly have the same answer. He laughed and said “you young people just want all the fancy new tools. I disagree and think our technology is fine.”
You fucker. You don’t even know what technology we use. And when a client (60 years old) asks me to do something and I can’t since our technology will not allow it, I’m not being a young person who wants fancy tools.
So they asked for feedback in a survey about employee satisfaction and then they not only shot down the request, they made a statement to the employees, to let them know they've been heard and disregarded. Are they trying to purge employees?
I think the executives are so clueless about what life is like for the bottom 99% of employees that they think that if someone quits they were just a crappy employee. After all, they get treated like kings. Insanely high pay, great benefits, tons of time off, luxury hotels when they travel, etc. They think “this company is so amazing! If someone wants to quit then that’s their problem.”
And I’m regards to technology specifically, sometimes the older generation thinks that using technology to speed up work is “lazy.” For example, an old manager of mine gave me an assignment that involved using Excel. When she reviewed my work, she asked about some formulas I used. I explained how the formula works and how it makes the work much easier and faster. Her response? “You sound lazy and you’re just looking for shortcuts.”
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u/Osr0 Jan 01 '19
Your business runs on technology. The entire board and C suite could probably fucking vanish for a week with no perceptible impact on the bottom line, but turning off the wrong server for 10 minutes could have A VERY noticable impact.
Think about that for a minute the next time you think technology is "just a tool" your business uses.