This has not been a place where it is desirable to express your opinion or where employees are required to bring their own ideas for a long time.
Anyone who can't fit into that 'yes man' mentality will soon no longer be part of Cisco.
Why saying one's own opinion has become undesirable here and what those who do not want to hear it are afraid of, I do not know. .
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Peter principle? Check your privilege.
I think they should rename it to the “Zie principle” meaning to promote diversity candidates beyond their level of competency.
Skilled employees do not know how to be succesful because you have to figure out how to couch any real initiative in diverity-driven woke-isms. The management now is so woke they don't think about profit and growth - unless it is in making sure it is growing a woke initiative.
They now operate under the (Peter Principle)^2.
_It's everywhere in society. Yesterday I saw a video where a Karen interrupted a live comedy show because she was offended by one of the jokes. There you have it._
A colleague was at a conference last month where a (woman) speaker blasted the room for allowing the industry to use a technical term she found offensive. He made a note never, ever to work with her company again.
In the early days, poorly thought out questions to Cisco email aliases would literally lead to calls to managers to have the underperforming fired.
That's how you build the Internet.
I hate seeing SEs ask AM questions in the ask space too. Wtf are you doing AM sh-t?
I think the mentality shift has occurred over the past decade. I remember being afraid to ask stupid questions that I hadn’t spent at least half a day trying to figure out for myself in 2010, yet now it’s the norm.
I had a programmer from BLR with a degree in computer science ask me to explain what an exit code was not too long ago…
Just really sad stuff
It's everywhere in society. Yesterday I saw a video where a Karen interrupted a live comedy show because she was offended by one of the jokes. There you have it.
I hate MBAs. They do this to high performing companies, without fail.
I miss the old school mailers. You wouldn’t believe the d-mb questions these new SEs ask in the Ask webex spaces. Bugging thousands of other engineers with @all. No research on their own, no intelligent questions, not asking the right audience, just bombarding everyone with their weak sh-t. They should be embarrassed. But they don’t get flamed.
I hear ya sista! Time to activate
There was a time in early 2000s where the mailer alias ruled.
Pretty much anything went. Not much off limits.
If you had an escalation, you posted to the alias. The escalation engineers would guide you.
If you did not have your crud together; sloppy questions, poor troubleshooting, not following directions...these would result in being flamed. Key is you learned.
Sometimes yes harsh comment and feedback but things got done, especially when big problems occured on new products.
That is long gone.
The pursuit of excellence takes pain, team effort, and acceptance of making mistakes; if mistakes are learned as lessons.
Now the name of the game is baloney showcasing politics. Look at me. I'm special. Really? Do you really know technology, or are you all talk?
Vapid woke "leaders" who have zero substance. They are incapable and unqualified to lead anything beyond political woke initiatives that have nothing to do with work. All as a cover for their gross lack of technical abilities, leadership and qualifications.