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I'm working at a mega Corp now (not one you've probably heard of) and it's a fucking farce.
We had a meeting last week about some problems with the current process. People kind of nodded along. Meeting was drawing to a close. No concrete tasks or assignments.
I say, "great. Who's taking lead on this? Can we have a proposal by Monday and make a decision by Wednesday?"
Suddenly management people are like "whoa whoa whoa stay in your lane"
Okay then why don't you fucking manage?
This happens all the time. We have long ass meetings with the whole team, talk about problems, but then no one is assigned to do anything and nothing changes.
There's just so much incompetence and ineptitude. Some of it is probably coming from hidden, bad, incentives
Honestly this one's on you, pal. Why do you even care about the megacorp's business?
Because the current process means constant merge conflicts that I have to deal with, and constant bugs I have to deal with.
But, on the other hand, maybe you're right and I should just check out and spend a day "fixing git problems" too
I don't want to push back too much, but I disagree with the other poster. You deserve meaningful work, and you seem like an educated person, so probably society as a whole would benefit more if you did something more interesting than fixing the outcomes of poor process. The amount of of human potential flushed down the toilet because MBAs insist on an ill fitting Taylorist approach to managing software projects is, in my view, a great moral harm. It is your professional duty, and in your personal interest, to either push back or move.
Not just managing software projects, it's like the whole economy right now tbh.