How To Alienate Your Employees
A short missive on the efforts of corporate modus operandi when it comes to salary related deflection techniques.
It’s well known in the Grand Game of Software Engineering that there’s nothing as attractive as a decent salary, closely followed by actually useful benefits such as the ability to remote work, the provision of private health care, and company incentivised pension contributions.
The commonality there being paid properly for the work done.
It comes as no surprise however, to any progressive engineer at least, that the whole corporate mindset is consistently doing the exact opposite in that pretty much all provided notional benefits are worthless, the vast majority of employee incentives are irrelevant (and sometimes even actively insulting), and therefore actual engagement with real employee wellbeing rarely even registers on the scale.
Even thinking about this dissonance makes my head hurt.
How can the supposedly qualified and experienced managerial classes alongside their allegedly highly trained and empathetic soft skilled HR army of wellbeing aficionados get it so catastrophically and consistently wrong?
Some people may say at this point, and they’re usually project managers or erstwhile engineers who have taken the management coin to be brutally…
