Posted on 01/04/2023 2:28:23 PM PST by SeekAndFind
I worked at a company where we dropped a small fortune on Arthur D Little to do a “business process redesign.” I led one of the functional area redesign teams at our company. What a waste of time and money that was.
I hope the firings went well.
Yeah, this is my world. I do all the stuff no one else wants to do AND they want me to start doing Java development. I really just want to retire.
I don’t think it is so much the English language as it is the Internet. Everybody is now connected to every other person on Planet Earth, so things get amplified and accelerated beyond belief. Idiotic trends spawn and die and are immediately replaced by other idiotic trends.
TikTok must be the ultimate for hot trends that flash and die in a day or two. It seems that corporate HR and Gen Z authors are operating at TikTok speed and adopting pure garbage that will be on the trash heap next week.
The fastest changing industry is primary and secondary education. I’ve never seen an industry adopt so many failed fads so quickly and throw them out when they don’t produce results, only to be replaced by the next empty, useless fad.
There weren’t many. In the end, ADL’s contract was terminated and very little changed. Costs weren’t reduced, time-to-market wasn’t improved, quality stayed the same...pretty much what you would have expected.
There can obviously be situational exceptions. For 80% probably not though (IMO).
At best, it means the same people are doing different jobs in the same organizations, while still being called back occasionally to do their old jobs. Not really a terrible thing, in a healthy organization, and pretty much standard practice in a small company.
This catchy phrase is not going to last very long before they will swap it out for another one.
Bingo.
Worse, management will run the A-Team that they're going to send to each problem area like horses until they drop. They'll be forced to go from one crisis to another while the lesser-skilled employees can sit in place, littering all over because someone else is going to clean it up.
Very quickly after that, managers are going to start actively letting things go because they can ask, without any fear of being called out, that the A-Team get sent in to fix all the problems. Voila, it's now corporate policy to reward failure.
Meanwhile, being good at putting out fires only means more fires appear. Only the young and green get suckered into the fire brigade although no one gets fooled twice. They end up having to quit because NO ONE is going to let professional problem solvers leave the crisis management team. The most idealistic were simply the most foolish as they sacrificed real skill building and contribution and instead got chained to a dying cause.
This is nothing new and is a sign of failure, like repairing broken windows on a sinking Titanic. Saw it decades ago. The companies that adopted it didn't just fail a bit, they failed completely and disappeared.
Every job description at my old employer had an “Other duties as assigned” clause in it.
The Films of Jam HandySo he was the original person to be cancelled and censored!Who was Jam Handy?
In today’s world, people tend to groan at the thought of watching educational training films, yet there is a fascinating history behind them. Of particular interest is the library’s collection of films and filmstrips produced for GM’s Chevrolet division by The Jam Handy Organization (JHO), whose clients also included schools and even Coca-Cola. While all but forgotten today, the company played an important role in Chevrolet’s history by educating throngs of consumers and salespeople alike.[/ezcol_2fifth] [ezcol_3fifth_end]Jam Handy Films in the Library's Collection
Once upon a time, the future didn’t look too bright for the company’s founder, Henry Jamison Handy. During his freshman year at the University of Michigan in 1903, Handy was kicked out of school over an article he wrote as a campus correspondent for the Chicago Tribune. In it, he took a jab at one of his professors, which was considered scandalous, and the resulting actions stood in his way of getting accepted into other schools. Even after being accepted by the University of Pennsylvania, he was asked to leave two weeks into the semester once they learned of the article.
Instead of giving up on life in the face of rejection, Handy persevered and found success working for the Chicago Tribune. During his time in the advertising department, Handy studied consumers and how they were driven to make a purchase. He theorized that a key component in selling a product was to have well-informed and enthusiastic salespeople. After training his salespeople, Handy found his hypothesis to be correct, as sales of the Tribune subsequently increased.
After leaving the Chicago Tribune, Handy built upon his experience by becoming a trailblazer in the world of educational films. In fact, he had gained such a high reputation that the American military commissioned him to create training films during World War I. After the war, he founded the Jam Handy Organization, which continued to produce educational films up until 1968. The automobile industry would become their biggest client, especially Chevrolet.
Fire the H-1Bs FIRST.
This.
These companies used the pandemic to go on firing sprees and to buy back stocks instead of making their companies stronger, more resilient, and more flexible. Now they will wring everything out of their best and most loyal workers in order to put off the hiring that they need to do.
It isn’t so much they rotate people to different places where they’re needed. They are saying, “Do your job, but also do this job so we don’t have to hire someone else until all the warning lights are flashing red and you’ve figured out that you’re being a sucker.”
Contract out HR. That would get their panties in a bunch.
Fine with that. I could go on and on about management that didn’t understand tech, feeling like they have to have “Indian tech guys”, with no rationale for exactly why.
“Because everyone else does!”
The shorts are my favorite part of MST3K.
Any article that has “Here’s what that means...” in the title should be instantly incinerated!
Some context - “Here’s what the means” is in the article metadata tags, e.g. if you post it on Slack or similar...
“Gartner analyst Emily Rose McRae predicts a rise in “quiet hiring” in 2023. Here’s what that means for you and your workplace.”
> find people that actually want to work
thems that wants to keeps their jobses might has to works now
It’s actually the other way around. In a downturn (or in anticipation of one), the first course of action is to dramatically reduce the size of the office, send everyone to work from home, and save a ton of money on rent and utilities in the process.
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