Screen size & your importance
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Kinda reminds me this Game one plays in Theatre which is to Play The Status (you're given a number between 1 and 10, with 1 having the lowest social status and 10 the highest, and you try and act as such a person).
Alongside the whole chin-down to chin-up thing, people tend to do more fast and confident moving the higher the status, but the reality is that whilst indeed up the scale in professional environment the higher the status the more busy and rushed they seem, the trully highest status people (the 10s) don't at all rush: as I put it back then (this was the UK) "the Queen doesn't rush because for everybody the right time for the Queen to be somewhere is when she's there, even it it's not actually so, hence she doesn't need to rush".
There was also some cartoon making the rounds many years ago about how people on a company looked depending on their social status, were you started with the unkept shabbily dressed homeless person that lived outside the vuilding, and as you went up the professional scale people got progressively more well dressed and into suits and such, and then all of a sudden a big switch, as the company owner at the top dressed as shabbily as the homeless person.
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Why would anyone fire someone who works so much for so little?
That's at least 9 separate jobs right there!
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The CEO also has the big screens. Their peons have two why would they only have one? What screens they're on the most is a different question.
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Apparently I'm off the end of the chart. My last workplace set up had:
- primary 15" laptop with two external monitors (so 3 screens in use simultaneously)
- secondary 15" laptop with external monitor (so another 2 screens) when the primary one was tied up doing heavy processing (I was lucky and managed to hold onto my previous laptop when we did the usual rounds of device upgrades whereas most people just returned them to IT to be retired, so I had a spare that I could readily take home for WFH days without messing with my main office setup)
- a standalone PC monitor (for automation stuff, so the screen was there just for monitoring as needed)
Damn, according to the chart, I bet you were working over time and logging in on weekends.
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Well, if the company gets fined for mismanaging or committing fraud, who do you think they will fire?
A scapegoat is very important.
who do you think they will fire?
10 to 20 percent of the workforce, so the CEO still can get a bonus.
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and yet... if it's a company that's a bit slack on security, the right command in the right place by someone with 2 monitors can kill the company dead.
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who do you think they will fire?
10 to 20 percent of the workforce, so the CEO still can get a bonus.
Yuuuup. My last company let go of 20% in a single round of layoffs
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Your description is basically of a "spherical CEO in a vacuum", ie. the ideal and abstract version of how corporations should operate. It has very little to do with reality
Have you worked with very many CEOs at SMEs? Based on my experience it seems to match the description, by and large.
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This is so accurate, it hurts.
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I must be some sub Spartacus worker. I have three monitors on my desk and two on the management network workstation behind me.
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True for the phone and tablet, but for any sort of computer that is not true
I work on a laptop with virtual desktops and I am much more productive that way than with a big screen... Or two big screens.
Everything is in the center of my field of view, I know which VD of my 3x3 grid holds what. It's much more efficient for me than bigger screens could ever be. And that is not for lack of trying!
It just depends on the person.
Exactly, this is why the most 'important' person just uses a phone they are the most efficient with the smallest screen
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Compensation is inversely proportional to productivity.
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Have you worked with very many CEOs at SMEs? Based on my experience it seems to match the description, by and large.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I've been a C-suite executive, and I've worked with executives (incl. CEOs) at public companies.
Not only is there often a thermocline of truth that stops "bad" information going up the chain, CEOs more often than not make decisions based on nothing but their own opinions, and they will more than happily discard any information that doesn't already fit that opinion, and even if negative things do manage to reach them from the other side of the thermocline, they often discount it or explain it away
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I feel wrong.
I have an iPhone, and a laptop and 2 screens.
Hello my brother/sister/velociraptor/etc in screens. We're worthless together
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wrote last edited by [email protected]
never mind
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You are actually the chart itself.
The all-too-common Load bearing IT
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They'll say that their work is mainly talking to other people
Which is why they believe AI is the future.
It does everything they do.
Produce slop
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Your description is basically of a "spherical CEO in a vacuum", ie. the ideal and abstract version of how corporations should operate. It has very little to do with reality
Well, I can only write from my own experience. I've worked for several major campaigns in my life. In banks, in telecom operators. And it's almost always been like this. And where there was none, the campaign collapsed. Not in a moment, of course, because campaigns, like people, do not die instantly, but age and degrade. But as a result, it was.
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CRT = cafeteria worker
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I'm at "iPad and enormous curved monitor connected to a laptop" so I guess I average out to upper-middle management. Which is shockingly accurate.
iPad, 2 phones, 2 laptops, and a double monitor. I own my own business with no employees so I do all the jobs.
