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Why is the burden of “not letting the team down” always placed on overworked employees, instead of on management to hire enough people?

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Yeah, how many times have we all heard that, in all its variations?

HOLY SHIT I NEEDED TO READ THIS TODAY

I once had a development program for which the folks responsible for staffing the various engineering disciplines were given a full year’s advance notice on our staffing needs. Every one of them assured us that we’d have the people we needed. A year later, all of them came through …

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… except for the software guy. So in a meeting where he explained that “gosh it’s hard”, and then rejecting a variety of our suggestions on how he might solve the problem, the stupid fuckwit had the balls to suggest that we “work smarter, not harder”. …

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So I asked him “what exactly do you suggest we do differently?”, and of course the dipshit had nothing.

When you put people ahead of profits, everyone wins. When you put profits ahead of people, only the owners win

I'm a retired teacher and I got tired of hearing "Do it for the kids." Pretty much the same thing.

I had a conversation with a co-worker who told me that since I've been on leave recuperating from my cancer treatment my team has dwindled from six people to two and management still smashes them every day for not getting everything done. Not sure I'm going back there.

Because 'management' are the bosses, and they get to place the "burdens" of the workplace on whomever they want... so, screw the workforce. Repeatedly & forever...

Because employment in the US always an abusive relationship where the abuser always blames the victim for the abuser’s problems.

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ooof. yes.

Or management stepping up and helping!! But usually, they feel that’s beneath them…

Why is AI not used to replace very, very expensive management, easily replaced by superior software, rather than lower level workers?

Well said.

I had an interviewer brag to me that when someone missed a typo on a just-back-from-the-printer-brochure and the entire team pasted on correction stickers until the wee hours. Walked away from that one.