I worked for Microsoft years ago. Nandella early years were great, quality was part of the process, engineer on automation like me had a great time.
Then he lost his kid and he returned something changed, managers were much less flexible, they started to fire people and luckily I was able to change jobs before they start the annual layoffs.
Instead of giving raises they prefer to cut 10% every year and hire cheaper… my friends that remained say the morale is very low
And this change things, when you like the place you work, you work the extra mile, when you are afraid of being layoff you just fake you’re doing more, you try to pull the rug of others instead of collaborate, ambient gets toxic and quality and true innovation suffers.
I think you’ve just described pretty much every corporation in North America though, if not even Europe. I read somewhere the other day it’s called the Rat Enterprise and the Rat Economy, which I think it’s an apt description. Nobody produces much of value anymore, it’s just largely bullshit and smoke and mirrors. Anyone who produces physical goods has enshitified them to basically just passable enough quality.
I worked for Microsoft years ago. Nandella early years were great, quality was part of the process, engineer on automation like me had a great time.
Then he lost his kid and he returned something changed, managers were much less flexible, they started to fire people and luckily I was able to change jobs before they start the annual layoffs.
Instead of giving raises they prefer to cut 10% every year and hire cheaper… my friends that remained say the morale is very low
And this change things, when you like the place you work, you work the extra mile, when you are afraid of being layoff you just fake you’re doing more, you try to pull the rug of others instead of collaborate, ambient gets toxic and quality and true innovation suffers.
I think you’ve just described pretty much every corporation in North America though, if not even Europe. I read somewhere the other day it’s called the Rat Enterprise and the Rat Economy, which I think it’s an apt description. Nobody produces much of value anymore, it’s just largely bullshit and smoke and mirrors. Anyone who produces physical goods has enshitified them to basically just passable enough quality.