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Patrick McKenzie@patio11• about 1 year ago

This sounds like a trivial observation and it isn’t: No organization which makes its people pay for coffee wants to win.

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Patrick McKenzie@patio11• about 1 year ago

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There are many other questions you can ask about an organization but if their people pay for coffee you can immediately discount their realized impact on the world by > 90%.

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Patrick McKenzie@patio11• about 1 year ago

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This is not simply for the cultural impact of stupid decisions, though goodness as a Japanese salaryman I have stories to tell. Management, having priced coffee, seeking expenses to cut, put a price on disposable coffee cups, and made engineers diligently count those paper cups.

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Patrick McKenzie@patio11• about 1 year ago

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Just try to imagine how upside down the world is when you think one of the highest priority tasks for a software engineer this Monday is updating the disposable coffee cup consumption spreadsheet.

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Patrick McKenzie@patio11• about 1 year ago

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And no, Japanese megacorps are not the only place where these insanities persist. And there are many isomorphic ones.

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SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD@mold_time• about 1 year ago

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@patio11 same as it ever was https://t.co/BDzZQpjSwZ

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