I’ve been on IT projects managed by little napoleon managers that went south.
Thing is, if you are a jerk manager, getting your people to fix the problem is a bit like getting your dog to stop chasing the squirrel. The only way you can actually control him is with one of those remote control shock collars.
I’ve seen IT guys come in and work diligently, day after day, on a problem like this, and get nowhere. ;-)
“I’ve seen IT guys come in and work diligently, day after day, on a problem like this, and get nowhere. ;-)”
Ah yes...”malicious compliance:” when the boss tells you to do something that you know it’s wrong and dangerously stupid, but you do it anyway because the boss is a pr!ck and deserves the crap storm that’s going to fall on him because you did what you were told to do.
It’s my favorite form of subversion!
I’d be willing to bet that there was more than a little malicious compliance at work here given the sheer stupidity of the demands the government was placing on these contractors. That part is amusing. What’s downright terrifying is that this regime tried to keep the prices on the exchanges secret until after one registered, so that they would have all your personal information should you ever deign to bitch about the cost of everything there!
Intimidation, anyone?
I have not visited that vile website and never will.
FUBO!
In the 90's one of my good customers awarded a large project to a competitor and 18 months and multiple of millions later, they asked us to look at the project.
Two of our best people examined the project plan, the time line , coding etc and decided that we couldn't fix it and that it couldn't be salvaged.
I by passed the IT Vice President and went to the CEO and told him we were going to pass and that this project was doomed to failure {I was a real star with the IT group/S}and our recommendation was to scrap it and start over.
They plodded on for another 8 months and then fired the VP in IT , scrapped the project and went back out for a new bid.