I feel like our society forgot that you’re supposed to pass your knowledge down to the next generation, but boomers decided that it wasn’t their job. Every man is an island instead of standing on the shoulders of giants like we are supposed to, and the result is everyone has to rediscover how to do anything themselves.
I don’t think boomer workers had much of a say in the matter. The change in culture has come from the top. MBA-brains stripping all the copper out of the walls
Yes exactly this. Corporate downsizing consolidates 3 jobs into one and now that one person left never has any time for documentation or trainings/knowledge transfers. They get overworked and leave and suddenly there’s no one left who knows what they did or how they did it.
The management understands that labor costs money but don’t seem to understand why, so they just keep firing or not re-hiring until all the institutional knowledge is gone and the firm collapses.
To be fair, why should a long-term employee spend months of their productive time training a short-term contractor who may not last the year?
Ignore for a moment how few to no actual “employees” are being hired, and thus everyone is a short-term temp.
It’s just a consequence of wanting maximum gains for little to nothing, i.e. corporate greed i.e. late-stage capitalism.
Bonus points if managers who do spend time training contractors get removed and replaced by those more willing to get in line with the company vision, being more “productive” in the ways that those in charge (Bezos, Musk, Huffman, etc.) can understand and agree with.
Literally why the US can’t make certain missiles any more lol. So it’s not all bad. Turns out none of the managers realised making weapons is skilled work until all the skilled workers retired.
I feel like our society forgot that you’re supposed to pass your knowledge down to the next generation, but boomers decided that it wasn’t their job. Every man is an island instead of standing on the shoulders of giants like we are supposed to, and the result is everyone has to rediscover how to do anything themselves.
I don’t think boomer workers had much of a say in the matter. The change in culture has come from the top. MBA-brains stripping all the copper out of the walls
Yes exactly this. Corporate downsizing consolidates 3 jobs into one and now that one person left never has any time for documentation or trainings/knowledge transfers. They get overworked and leave and suddenly there’s no one left who knows what they did or how they did it.
The management understands that labor costs money but don’t seem to understand why, so they just keep firing or not re-hiring until all the institutional knowledge is gone and the firm collapses.
To be fair, why should a long-term employee spend months of their productive time training a short-term contractor who may not last the year?
Ignore for a moment how few to no actual “employees” are being hired, and thus everyone is a short-term temp.
It’s just a consequence of wanting maximum gains for little to nothing, i.e. corporate greed i.e. late-stage capitalism.
Bonus points if managers who do spend time training contractors get removed and replaced by those more willing to get in line with the company vision, being more “productive” in the ways that those in charge (Bezos, Musk, Huffman, etc.) can understand and agree with.
Literally why the US can’t make certain missiles any more lol. So it’s not all bad. Turns out none of the managers realised making weapons is skilled work until all the skilled workers retired.
Because they don’t retire. They just fucking die at their desk and the knowledge goes with them.