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Colonel Forbin

I've gathered (not really having my finger "on the pulse" for the short period I was there) that Bell perceived the development teams' organization as a structural defect that needed to be repaired. The word "oops" comes to mind.

If that's what you mean then I agree but DEC ran pretty close to the metal; the necessary "empowerment" of the "sandal wearers" that you speak of was inherent in the company and a precondition to the company existing in the first place.

But your bog-standard IT worker works in a department that serves other departments that serve the company's product; he-she isn't the company's product.

well, yes, that fosters a good working environment.

I couldn't find the post of course; generally my point is that bribes should rarely, if ever, flow directly downwards.

Why, do you see a "chip" somewhere ? could just be dandruff.

You mentioned "pre-judices", I'm giving you background on my objections to your linguistic usage.

Is it their job to ?

and then you know where-what the resources are.

At DEC, Bell was "improving the process".

"if it ain't broke..."

minor lecture on drone survival in a bureaucratic environment...

Changing a process requires approval-notification up and down the chain and is rarely a "supervised" person's job in the first place. If you see a need for change, a memo to your supervisor (with a cc to personnel) is pretty much all you need to do to start. If no joy and you still feel that itching burning sensation, rinse and repeat one step higher in the organizational chart; if you get to the top and nobody responds, then if you decide to go somewhere else, at least Personnel will give you a glowing recommendation because you've kept them in the loop.

Excepting the case of *huge* organizations it's rare that there's somebody "doing nothing". In some cases it's similar to how a fireman or soldier spends alot of time "doing nothing", in others it's a form of early retirement.

rpl