I've worked for three corporations in three separate industries(retail, food service, and manufacturing). At all three, I've seen the same three tightly interwoven problems: lack of communication, lack of coordination, and poor management.
I suspect what happens over time is people are expected to get promoted, or they're great kiss asses, so they do, in spite of making terrible managers. It's a sad reality, but yeah, some people are great workers, but terrible managers, just the way things go.
What then happens is those terrible managers realize they're shit at their new position and hide the fact by keeping garbage employees on as a cover, while pushing the people who are actually good at their jobs extra hard so they still keep their numbers in an 'acceptable' range that keeps the hire ups off their asses.
The problem persists over time as the company expands, and eventually you end up with a company full of workers who are lazy as sin, managers who are incompetent/lazy, and all the people who are worth a shit being driven off or quitting from the extra workload dumped on them by the shit heels they have to deal with.
If Musk has any sense, he'll go back through the old employees who quit long before he came on board and see if any of them are worth bringing back...
That's fair. I'm mainly speculating here. It's not like I've ever been a manager (nor do I really want to, to be perfectly honest. Seems like a massive headache for a moderate rise in pay, honestly)
I've worked for three corporations in three separate industries(retail, food service, and manufacturing). At all three, I've seen the same three tightly interwoven problems: lack of communication, lack of coordination, and poor management.
I suspect what happens over time is people are expected to get promoted, or they're great kiss asses, so they do, in spite of making terrible managers. It's a sad reality, but yeah, some people are great workers, but terrible managers, just the way things go.
What then happens is those terrible managers realize they're shit at their new position and hide the fact by keeping garbage employees on as a cover, while pushing the people who are actually good at their jobs extra hard so they still keep their numbers in an 'acceptable' range that keeps the hire ups off their asses.
The problem persists over time as the company expands, and eventually you end up with a company full of workers who are lazy as sin, managers who are incompetent/lazy, and all the people who are worth a shit being driven off or quitting from the extra workload dumped on them by the shit heels they have to deal with.
If Musk has any sense, he'll go back through the old employees who quit long before he came on board and see if any of them are worth bringing back...
In some cases, it's not being horrible managers, but "not being able to manage at the level they get sent to.
That's fair. I'm mainly speculating here. It's not like I've ever been a manager (nor do I really want to, to be perfectly honest. Seems like a massive headache for a moderate rise in pay, honestly)
It's the dangling carrot for wage slaves. You can still be a wage slave, but be responsible for other wage slaves too!
Sounds awful, tbh...