Going backwards
When I moved to Brisbane from South Africa, I really expected to have left the 3rd world mentality behind me.
Well, I ‘ve got news for you!!!
The backwards third world mentality is alive and well in a Brisbane software company.
Day-in-day out there is always a push to increase productivity, reduce defects and minimize software development costs.
The company does a frigging excellent job at minimizing software costs by pretty much expecting – in a demanding kind of way – that you give the company 24/7 all the time.
Some of this partly to blame on the culture where the average worker has given businesses in Australia over $18 billion in unpaid overtime.
Fine – average workers are just idiots!!!
Last week, a woman CEO demanded that all developers use physical paper folders for all projects that they’re working on.
Wow.
That meant that gone are the Word requirement documents, the Excel spreadsheets that we email amongst ourselves, test cases that get dumped on the shared drives etc.
All this because she likes to touch/see the physical documents.
What a bitch!!!
How can a CEO of a “world leading” fashion software organization be so backwards. What makes things rather scary is that she’s in her early 40′s – not even an old fart yet.
Maybe it is the environment. The Sydney siders often say that “Brisbane is a big country town“
