Challenging but pointless
Challenging but pointless
- Recognized worldwide, still a symbol of prestige.
- Lots of opportunities to switch within.
- Starts off with good pay.
- Will put you in challenging positions, which is great for learning.
- Lengthy, painful, and often completely useless processes attached to every single thing.
- Thousands of different initiatives, but not enough time to properly commit to any.
- Very slow salary growth, barely keeping up with inflation.
- Not concerned with efficiency.
- Ridiculous lack of commitment to goals and rapid switching to new roles.
- Stop coming up with a list of new plans every 3 months and actually commit to some solid, definable goals.
- Stop wasting the time of the average worker with mountains of useless information, processes, and meetings. Focus on what actually matters.
- Give people time to learn and excel at what they do instead of rapidly switching around to increase "coverage".
- In fact, stop doing anything at all, and people might do a better job by themselves.
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