A good idea.
Mr 400k; DON'T LIKE IT LEAVE.
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Boo hoo.
More companies should do this, make the employees use or deal with the product or service.
Does the driver get to do the engineer’s job?
Uhh, yeah, you did. If you take the paycheck from them, they can tell you what to do.
The engineers could use some humility.
Oh, absolutely.
However, I think it is situations like this that have caused so many people to walk away from jobs recently. There is a realization that you have to do stuff that you feel is beneath you, you aren't respected, you aren't valued, in some cases you aren't well compensated (Mr 400K probably can't claim this one). Your company isn't likely to be loyal to you. They will chew you up and spit you out any time their bottomline looks threatened. And why shouldn't they? But many workers are realizing that they are also in that situation. "You want me to do WHAT? Hey, I'm leaving."
If companies wonder why people leave, maybe they should pause and reflect.
In previous places I’ve worked for, I’ve seen VPs dragging the luggage around for CEOs. Start your own company, make it really successful, then sell it for a bundle. Then you can choose your work assignments, going forward. Easy peasy.
Someone like this who is annoyed by experiencing how his product functions in the real world is not worth 400k.
As an engineer, it would do a lot of good for us to spend more time with the customer directly rather than seeing what they want through a list of requirements that have been filtered through a dozen layers of requirements writing by managers and contract officials on both sides.
I know someone who was delivering for them. After several bad experiences, he quit. He was making good money.
Let’s see...two dog attacks, falling through a rotted porch, people lying about not getting the food so they could get a free meal. He had to pay for the food even though he’d taken a photo of the delivery. They also took him off deliveries for a few days as a punishment. That means he got moved down the list for jobs, when he was formerly at the top.
San Fran is a very dangerous place now. Oh, and $400k probably isn’t a lot of money if you live there.
If he’s making that much there, he could move to Iowa and telecommute and live at a higher standard for probably $100k.
He arrived early and came across the CEO of the company cleaning the men's bathroom.
Japanese companies are very egalitarian that way. Everyone all the way up to the CEO takes a turn at doing the menial jobs that keep the offices and plants in order.
As long as the C-Suite types do it too ..
One delivery a month sure is easier than looking for a job.
I wouldnt mind as long as I didnt have to make a delivery in a safari park free fire zone.
Ok, so I’m a Dasher. The App is an absolute nightmare with the updates taking place on Fridays during the busiest times as well as the other gliches you find while dashing like the app not responding to a completed delivery and others. If the software engineers really did their job like riding along with dashers, they would see the real world problems with the app we are forced to live with.
I wish more employers would provide the opportunity for system developers to actually perform the end user’s job. Or at least shadow them. This would lead to much better product.
In many cases that I’ve witnessed the developers are prevented from any direct contact with the client. Everything had to be done through managers or third parties, leading to miscommunication, confusion and delays.
I’m a software engineer. I’ve spent a lot of time in warehouses and production lines and on trucks delivering products to customers. I know better what they need because of this.
The people giving the orders should know exactly what orders they are giving. I remember a time study done on electrical harnesses. They could assemble them faster the time study people insisted. I went over the numbers and then went down to the floor. I discovered that their faster was done by having all the wires precut (we would have to hire someone else to do that) and by cutting out the testing every wire.
Which mean that instead of a failure rate of under one percent in final testing we would have a failure rate of four percent.
The time study guys had no idea how long it took to check a fully assembled harness with well over 100 wires to find a failure.
My boss looked over my audit report and decided to find the time study people some other department to concentrate on.
Checkers/Rallys have required the same thing for ALL employees for over 30 years.
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