Apple and the New Worker Bee Buzz
August 16, 2021
Ah, the good old days. One would post a job, interview candidates, hire a person, and the individual would do what the company said. No more. It seems that the new worker bees want to buzz, clump, explore, and sting when a work task is not congruent with [a] world view, [b] social agenda, [c] perception of truth and justice, or [d] all of the above.
Google still sparkles with the brilliance of its management procedures; example: the Dr. Timnit Gebru method. Amazon has some struggles; example: managing the company’s union activity. Even Microsoft has demonstrated its acumen with the print nightmare thing – three, four times?
I noted “Apple Faces Internal Revolt over Plan to Scan Users’ iPhones.” The write up points out:
A backlash over Apple’s move to scan customer phones and computers for child abuse images has grown to include employees speaking out internally, a notable turn in a company famed for its secretive culture, as well as provoking intensified protests from leading technology policy groups. Apple employees have flooded an Apple internal Slack channel with more than 800 messages on the plan announced a week ago…
I think Apple is playing catch up, but the allegedly accurate information in “Apple Acknowledges Confusion over Child Safety Updates” says:
Apple is ready to acknowledge the controversy over its child safety updates, but it sees this as a matter of poor messaging — not bad policy.
Close but no cigar.
The mild flap (well, maybe a large scale fire storm is more than a “flap”?) illustrates these modern management precepts:
- Operate from the position of god mode. By definition, the words are those of an omniscient, omnipresent, and omnipotent Super Mario who knows everything before it happens most of the time. (Hey, anyone can slip on a banana peel.)
- Convert the so-called employee revolt and confusion with a bad prose passage. Sorry, that doesn’t work for me.
- Illustrate what I call the “Google customer centric approach”; that is, who cares?
Net net: The high school science club management method has been implemented with a style that probably elicits the Sin of Envy from outfits like NSO Group.
Stephen E Arnold, August 16, 2021
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