No documented leadership hierarchy or organisation structure when there’s more than maybe 10 people working there. If you have to waste your time fighting out who everyone is and you can’t do it in a single meeting where everyone can introduce themselves, then the place is too big to not document roles and responsibilities officially. It leads to closed circles of people who hold the necessary historical knowledge to get anything done.
CloudCoach for me, but not for thee
You walk in on your first day and what do you see there?
Humans
Remote lighthouse keeping is sounding better and better.
Good news! We got you four coworkers.
Enjoy your five-person dynamic
Is that usually a five-person job? I’m honestly unfamiliar with lighthouse upkeep, lol.
Traditionally people had to suffer in solitude. But I represent the Extroverted Busybody Network.
We take inhuman lonely conditions and make sure people get constant company.
So far we’re on track to eliminate all non-roommate apartment housing in Boise by 2025!
Spreading the Joy of Togetherness. Universally.
Secret Teams chats that only the ingroup is part of, yet often at all-staff meetings they mention their inside jokes from the chat and then go “oh whoops only some people will understand haha”
😟
mechanical keyboards instead of membranes
HAH
Upvote
When the person showing you around starts telling you who to avoid.
When people fundamentally change depending on who is in the room.
When there is both Cisco video conferencing equipment and Skype/Teams-certified devices in the conference rooms because they are managed by two different departments that purchased conference equipment separately.
And it’s obvious IT caught in the middle with the CIO having zero clout with the CEO for that to happen.
3 different messaging platforms… my bad I didnt check fucking teams when everyone else is on slack
Oddly specific, but totally a red flag.
Specific cause it was exactly the situation with my last employer
Figured. Commiserations…
It has half a dozen employees.
