Leadership at most businesses have decided it is easier to hire experienced workers rather than grow and develop the next generation workforce
Who’s going to train the juniors? We’ve been in lost-boys mode for 20 years, now, after the post-y2k shedding of mentors and documentors. Staff has been self-learning in the way some people “roll their own encryption” with similar effects. Now we have 2 generations of people living in this dark age with no mentorship to fill in blanks they can’t fill themselves.
And you’re thinking to let them go to hire more noobs. Are they going to train them from the bread line? Is your one remaining senior who knows the whys and the whats going to train anything before management cans his expensive non-coding ass?
May as well: every time we say “this is bad because it breaks these important rules and we don’t want risk” we get “lol boomer” anyway from the sparkle-junkies. But
I love how you’ve taken management’s trimming of staff to brutal levels to be an us-vs-them among the staff.
Managers should be engaged and skilled enough to do any direct team member’s work in their absence or train any person in the role. Their team should be used to scale the capacity and capabilities. If this isn’t being done, the business model is broken and eventually will cause issues - perhaps that’s what you are experiencing.
Who’s going to train the juniors? We’ve been in lost-boys mode for 20 years, now, after the post-y2k shedding of mentors and documentors. Staff has been self-learning in the way some people “roll their own encryption” with similar effects. Now we have 2 generations of people living in this dark age with no mentorship to fill in blanks they can’t fill themselves.
And you’re thinking to let them go to hire more noobs. Are they going to train them from the bread line? Is your one remaining senior who knows the whys and the whats going to train anything before management cans his expensive non-coding ass?
May as well: every time we say “this is bad because it breaks these important rules and we don’t want risk” we get “lol boomer” anyway from the sparkle-junkies. But I love how you’ve taken management’s trimming of staff to brutal levels to be an us-vs-them among the staff.
Managers should be engaged and skilled enough to do any direct team member’s work in their absence or train any person in the role. Their team should be used to scale the capacity and capabilities. If this isn’t being done, the business model is broken and eventually will cause issues - perhaps that’s what you are experiencing.