On the Hub discussion about improving the employee experience, one employee wrote: "All the work that needed to be done before we restructured still needs to be done." In response, the employee was told: "I have to disagree...we have to be brutal with prioritization. Some of our old work has to stop. The point of 'big, simple, fast' is not to make everyone do the same workload faster....we have to be better at prioritization and alignment." Does this person think rank-and-file employees can say: "hey, let's stop doing this or that work?" Even if we suggest something like that, no one would care. We continue to do all (or most of) the work left behind by laid off colleagues.
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feels like were about to reach the moment when clients realize last years purge was a massive misstep as deadlines begin to slip and quality goes in the toilet
no fault of any of those left behind as many are picking up work on projects that suddenly lost years of experience with no plan to transition the knowledge
meanwhile leadership balks at the size of estimates as if its the staffs fault they dont have the same knowledge and experience as those who were given the boot in december
dont think its going to be fun around here when the s**t hits the fan and leadership starts looking for rank and file to blame
",,,better at prioritization and alignment..." Empty, stupid words.
That's why the constant blah blah about being customer centric is so annoying. Customers are suffering along with employees in the form of lower quality products. And many of them are voting with their feet.
Well said Ksg. Nailed it. They will say quality matters but we don’t have the tools for it and they would never admit it that quality is low on their priority list. They must think we are all (including customers) too naive to know that. In reality they are the naive ones for thinking that. In the end I’m sure once customers realize they will just dump us and have the excuse to do so. Sad to watch
In my experience, we aren't cutting products. We are cutting corners. There's no quality control, we can't work as diligently because we have to work faster and have less time to do checking, we are sacrificing quality and accuracy becaust stuff needs to get out and they don't care how. The general attitude is, if they don't care about our quality for customers, why should I? Tragic.
Sorry, are they saying cut products? Because that's how you get less work.