See the thing is, typically your boss hires specialists for tasks, because your boss doesnt know how to do it themself. In a large company your boss typically knows how to run the business and some form of problem domain the business cares about.
Your boss probably doesnt know how to manage something like a scaled database or your kuberetes cluster running on AWS… thats what he hired Steve to handle, because Steve went to school for several years to learn how to do that.
As a result, Steve knows how important is to do, but Steve can’t just willy nilly do whatever he wants, he needs approval to go and do it.
This puts you in the situation where the Boss, who has no clue how works, is in charge of making the call of whether Steve is allowed to go spend a few days doing
Steve can sit and explain in great length and detail how incredibly important is, but at the end of the day its the Boss’s call if it actually happens. And the Boss, who has no clue how the fuck works, can absolutely (and VERY often does) make the call to decide that , despite being important, is not as important as , purely because doesnt directly put money in the company’s pocket, and does.
Even though Steve knows that failing to do will have a lot worse long term implications that might result in the company suddenly not having any more to do, because it shit the bed and everything stopped working, or perhaps a failure to comply with will long term cost the company a fuck tonne of money.
Or long term a failure to do will just result in Steve leaving the company because he doesn’t want to be responsible for people dying or important info being exposed or some other shit like that.
But yeah, in an ideal world, the Boss would trust Steve when Steve tells him is super fucking important, and he’d let Steve go do it because he trusts Steve.
But very often, Boss’s dont give a shit unless directly makes them money and enables them to buy their fourth house.
If you do find yourself a Boss that trusts their Steve’s though… You cherish those bosses and stick with them, they are rare but the best.
You missed the part where the employee was the one saying it was important, not the boss. And a lot of those tasks aren’t things you can just hand off to a new person, anyway - e.g., tech debt on software.
If they really needed to get around to doing that, the boss would’ve already hired another employee to do that task.
Not doing so implies that paying someone just for that task wouldn’t be worth it.
That does not change when a worker becomes available from somewhere else.
This one made me laugh pretty hard, very great joke hahahaha
(Almost always, no, no one was hired to do the thing, its been on the backlog for a year now but everyone is way too busy to do it)
If the boss has no problem keeping it on the backlog forever, then apparently it isn’t an issue worth dealing with.
Boy I sure wish that was the case.
See the thing is, typically your boss hires specialists for tasks, because your boss doesnt know how to do it themself. In a large company your boss typically knows how to run the business and some form of problem domain the business cares about.
Your boss probably doesnt know how to manage something like a scaled database or your kuberetes cluster running on AWS… thats what he hired Steve to handle, because Steve went to school for several years to learn how to do that.
As a result, Steve knows how important is to do, but Steve can’t just willy nilly do whatever he wants, he needs approval to go and do it.
This puts you in the situation where the Boss, who has no clue how works, is in charge of making the call of whether Steve is allowed to go spend a few days doing
Steve can sit and explain in great length and detail how incredibly important is, but at the end of the day its the Boss’s call if it actually happens. And the Boss, who has no clue how the fuck works, can absolutely (and VERY often does) make the call to decide that , despite being important, is not as important as , purely because doesnt directly put money in the company’s pocket, and does.
Even though Steve knows that failing to do will have a lot worse long term implications that might result in the company suddenly not having any more to do, because it shit the bed and everything stopped working, or perhaps a failure to comply with will long term cost the company a fuck tonne of money.
Or long term a failure to do will just result in Steve leaving the company because he doesn’t want to be responsible for people dying or important info being exposed or some other shit like that.
But yeah, in an ideal world, the Boss would trust Steve when Steve tells him is super fucking important, and he’d let Steve go do it because he trusts Steve.
But very often, Boss’s dont give a shit unless directly makes them money and enables them to buy their fourth house.
If you do find yourself a Boss that trusts their Steve’s though… You cherish those bosses and stick with them, they are rare but the best.
Until you get fired because Nina automated your job
You missed the part where the employee was the one saying it was important, not the boss. And a lot of those tasks aren’t things you can just hand off to a new person, anyway - e.g., tech debt on software.