Ah, so it's not just software developers
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Many moons ago, before I was in technology, I worked as a sheet metal workers apprentice. I remember on more than one occasion, watching the shop foreman talk to the company owner or a customer with a look on his face that anyone who has ever spent two seconds chatting with the least competent corporate VP can identify with.
It's a look that says, "I understand the words that you're saying but you clearly don't know what the hell you're talking about." There are people in virtually every industry that somehow manage to fail upwards. Maybe if you call yourself the "idea guy" enough, other people start to believe you.
I would like to take a moment to thank these kinds of managers for helping motivate me to save enough money that I can walk out of any job that pulls this shit instantly. The heavily casualized workforce cuts both ways baby, here's your 1 hours notice before my shift.
Boss:Hey why isn't order 69420 done?, we have to ship it by the end of the week.
Me: where is the packet?
Boss: crickets
Me: ok, where is the material?
Boss: crickets
I love the "oh we told the customer the material is on the way a month ago." When they didn't order and it's months of lead time. But I have rush?
Same thing in IT. You work on 30 different tickets, all "urgent", but then a PM DM's you that his issue takes precedence (it doesn't).
As a mechanical engineer, I get asked by my management to expedite the machining just for the prototype I built to sit there unused because the person to run the experiments is too busy
Trying to get capto systems for the multi-task lathes and zero-point pallets for the mills. I do prototyping and it's the only way to stay sane.