I work in advertising, so I’ve worked with clients from massive companies down to smaller ones. It was wild seeing how dysfunctional major brands are. Like… genuinely shocking levels of waste, miscommunication, and general bullshit.
I hate when people say government should run more like a business, because from what I’ve seen most businesses are run badly. And obviously that’s not the point of government, but still, businesses get put on a pedestal way too often.
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I’ve worked on one of the biggest consumer brands on earth and it was the most dysfunctional team of people I’ve ever seen. Everybody was an idiot, nobody had a plan.
I’ve also worked at a small company with a laughable annual budget and everything ran like clockwork.
Oh, and the giant company tracks money with glorified excel sheets, usually handled by first and second year associates LOL
I hate when people say "they wouldn’t do it if it weren’t profitable!". Like companies are perfectly rational machines operating only on hard data.
Meanwhile I’m sitting in a meeting with my VP who basically asked chatgpt for the best strategy, or my project lead who approved everything blindly because he just wanted to get to his 4th vacation that year.
Massive corporations are made of people and those people are all looking out for themselves. They do not care if the company earns less if it benefits them personally more. Under the right circumstances a manager will absolutely choose the less profitable path if it gets them extra pay or means less work or just because they’re dumb and don’t think anything through.
Same. It’s nuts how some companies just stumble forward successfully.