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1 hour ago, Monte1076 said:

1st part: Dilbert Principle or Peter Principle?

Via Wikipedia, Scott Adams quote:

And I don't understand why they'd duplicate or replicate processes that already work, other than having multiple people essentially doing the same job. Maybe in case one is sick/on vacation? Why not work toward automating some tasks?

2nd part: I think you're around my age (I'll be 46 later this year). I've seen a lot of things, too. I really hope this stuff isn't being taught in business school. Where I work, it's basically about keeping clients happy. How much code I write/what the project requires is almost irrelevant. Bottom line is: Does the end result work? Is the client happy with it? I keep track of projects I work on, sure. Mainly for "performance review" reasons. I like my bonuses. 😉

As an example, I wrote a tool that (I was told by the client) reduced their workload for a specific task by around 90%. It was tracked, sure, in TFS, but that was mainly for status updates, so other people can see progress.

Of course, I think the team I work on/with is a little bit older, so I don't think we have to worry too much about sniping each other.

We’ve added in steps like scheduling the task.  We can’t just do it when we have time to.  They want every minute accounted for on a scheduling database.  They created an entirely new position to oversee the scheduling too.  So the task is performed, the documentation is put on the shared drive, but we now have to put it in a cloud because the millineals would rather do that.  Then we have to go back into the scheduling program and close out the work order, attach the documentation to the work order, and send it to a separate sharing source.  What used to be one step is now three.  And they told us it would make us more efficient employees.  We average 4-5 more hours a week at a computer so we can  give them data.  Then they ask you why a task took so long???  The last time it was completed it didn’t take that long.  Well stuff doesn’t always go according to plan….  It’s just really frustrating how something so simple has become so stupid

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6 hours ago, Monte1076 said:

They may not have even been aware of him, at all, basically. He was likely just a number on a payroll spreadsheet somewhere.

I think some of the backstabbing and stuff today is either an "office politics" thing (i.e. "I want to get ahead"), or possibly a political game (i.e. "I know Jim's politics, and they're not mine, so I don't like him, so I'm going to sabotage his work, or whatever). With budgets and such, there's only so many people who will be promoted. Some want to be promoted so they can bully subordinates.

Other than that, I don't know.

Also, maybe it's a combination of the "Peter Principle" (i.e. people are elevated to their level of incompetence), and the "Dilbert Principle" (i.e. the incompetent are intentionally moved into management to get them out of the way of the actual competent workers).

What he did get probably came from local management not cooperate. It got bashed on twitter but in all likely hood that gift bag came out of his or her own pocket 

With the employee turn over Burger King has, I do not see them having a cooperate policy for this  

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13 minutes ago, DB2point0 said:

 It’s just really frustrating how something so simple has become so stupid

I've seen similar as a programmer. There's something that some brilliant programmers came up with years ago called the "Agile Manifesto".

Agile is supposed to be a development methodology, not a "project management" one. Over the past 10-15 years, it's been turned from a "development methodology" into a "project management" philosophy of sorts.

https://agilemanifesto.org/principles.html

Although I do somewhat like Kanban.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanban_(development)

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7 hours ago, Hagar said:

Just a guess, the man probably has mental deficiencies that have prevented him from moving up the Corp ladder.  And yes, a suitable reward would’ve been nice, but realistically I doubt anyone high up at BK was even aware of the (possibly unique) situation.

Ironically, me and a friend were talking last night about the split between employers and employees.  My experience was this division, which had always been tenuous at best, became a great divide (now I’m thinking of Blue Bell ice cream, lol) in the 80’s.  It’s also the same time I started seeing division in the employees.  I worked at the same place from 1968 until 1998.  The first 15 years we (the work force) got along great.  Tight knit.  We’d discuss our families, and how the kids were doing, and for the most part, could trust each other.  Somewhere in the 80’s, that changed.  Guys started backstabbing each other.  Trust became a thing of the past.  It’s like things turned into a dog eat dog atmosphere.  I suppose a forewarning of what we have today.  My oh my, us old folks do rattle on.  I’ll give y’all’s brain & eyes a rest now.

Yes, it sounds like the employee has mental deficiencies .  

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23 minutes ago, osup116 said:

What he did get probably came from local management not cooperate. It got bashed on twitter but in all likely hood that gift bag came out of his or her own pocket 

With the employee turn over Burger King has, I do not see them having a cooperate policy for this  

I do agree with this.  No way did BK Headquarters know who his name even was.  Sounds like now they are making things right.  

 

The biggest thing is the huge PR nightmare.  

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7 hours ago, RETIREDFAN1 said:

It's BURGER KING......as long as he worked there, he should have advanced up the ladder from burger flipper to manager..........something not right with him if he didn't advance......and the ONLY thing they owe him for doing his job is his paycheck..........

Sounds like he was a special needs person.  They do make great workers, as they know a lot of people would not give them a chance.  

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Just now, BlahBlah said:

Sounds like he was a special needs person.  They do make great workers, as they know a lot of people would not give them a chance.  

Good for him......however he got a check every week......nothing else is owed him.......

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1 minute ago, RETIREDFAN1 said:

Good for him......however he got a check every week......nothing else is owed him.......

In today's world I would set the guy as a great example for other employees to follow.  

Huge public relations disaster for BK.  

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Just now, BlahBlah said:

In today's world I would set the guy as a great example for other employees to follow.  

Huge public relations disaster for BK.  

He was doing what he got PAID to do.......Burger King owed him nothing but his check every week.......

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2 minutes ago, RETIREDFAN1 said:

Bible says nothing about extra things....it shows us to do our jobs to the best of our ability and be thankful we get paid anything.....try again atheist........

Spoken like a true Fascist.  

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6 hours ago, RETIREDFAN1 said:

That's whats wrong with the newer generations.....they think they are owed more than the paycheck they are working for.......

You won’t find any of the younger generation working 27 years without missing a days work, so no problem there.  
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3 hours ago, DB2point0 said:

Corporations change when the average age of the workforce changes.  Now, where I work, everything has to be done on a database, app, or cloud to even show work has been done.  Tge corporation I work for cares more about data and social politics than the actual work we do.  It’s rather discouraging.  Our corporate level is filling with millineals that sit around and figure out ways to duplicate and replicate our work telling us this will make us more efficient.  I’m in the middle of my career and see the stupidity in it as I’ve seen the ways that things operated successfully in the past.  The young guys just starting out don’t get why we are ticked off about it because they don’t see that we know how success is created in our industry.  I’ve been there for 21 years and it’s the only company I’ve ever worked for.  The young guys are under 30 and have worked for 5-8 different places.  Used to that wasn’t a desirable trait when hiring.  Now HR thinks it brings balance.  Everything is getting bassackwards lately.  

Agreed.  Some years before I retired they had started the Big Brother 🐂💩.  They have more people checking on the work workers do than they have workers.  I suspect they had checkers checking the checkers.  Ridiculous!

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1 hour ago, BlahBlah said:

Spoken like a true Fascist.  

Your libnut deranged mind is showing now commie......FASCISM isn't an economic system....What I spoke like was something you socialists have never seen.....a true laissez faire free market capitalist........

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10 hours ago, RETIREDFAN1 said:

Why?? He did what they were paying him to do for 27 years......he should be rewarded for performing what he was paid to do??? 

They could have given him a free whopper and a Star Wars digital watch.  I still have one from a kids meal toy.  Believe it or not that watch worked from 1999 - 2011.  

Back on topic this is the way it is with every restaurant chain for anyone from the position of Supervisor to crew member.  Many chains do have 401K's that employees can invest in.  Where I work my company matches it plus an additional 65 cents for ever $1 I contribute.  I don't know if Burger King offers a plan like that or not, but if so he might be better off than some of you think.  

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1 hour ago, gamewatcher63 said:

Gee I just remembered….after 4 years of active duty 24/7/365….I didn’t get any reward from Uncle Sam other than a DD-214….what a jip

 

Im a big fan of double D's 😛...but what is a DD-214? A basic military discharge?

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15 minutes ago, EnjoyLife said:

That vegetarian "Impossible Whopper" is pretty good.

I tried one once. You can tell it's not actual meat, though. The texture and taste is a little different. Also, apparently all these "fake meat" products (i.e. the "impossible" meat things) aren't as good for you as some people say, and in some cases may be worse than meat. At least that's my understanding.

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