europoooooor

My italian mother-in-law just had a 30-min call to decide whether their next call on Monday should last more or less than 30 mins

She is currently in an hour-plus-long, 4-person call to decide what employee should work on a client project

Meeting looks far from over and only decision in sight seem to have another meeting with said employee and their direct report

Meeting has now been going for 2 hours, no decisions were taken, candidate pool has expanded from 1 to 2, apparent course of action is "giving a test" to assess both

You couldn't make this shit up

What really strikes me - beyond the obvious, astounding operational inefficiency of even having syncs like these - is that there is clearly no one at the company who knows their industry and people well enough to make such decisions, and / or has the power to execute them

And that, children is why this channel is called /europoooooor

If I had to guess, there are between $500k and $5M in yearly salaries going to people whose job is bicker on Teams (didn't even have to ask 😂) from their couch for 2-4 hours a day about stuff they don't know, while the people who actually do the job take home $20k / yr net and have to deal with these mfs to boot