Does it make sense to accept charge per minute when you are hosting yourself? When GHA is not very good?

> The number of product owners and agile coaches might be excessive

Its a great soup, apart from the turds floating in it.

> Non-compliance stable as a discipline method

Can you expand? I don't understand what this means.

It's some low-risk/consequence project/initiative that is designed to receive people that will be fired due to lack of compliance and/or collaboration with the new management.

Once we had a German colleague that was not so collaborative in sharing the knowledge about some specific parts of the application, and the Tech lead replaced her MacBook with a Windows 10, and she only can write PRs related with DocStrings.

This seems kind of childish to be honest. Why not just fire the person?

Because firing people in Germany is a multi-year process that requires (among many other things) paying for a complete training course in all job-relevant skills under the assumption that any incompetence is caused by insufficient training.

I mean I'd guess it was because it's somewhere with a higher bar to firing. Redundancy or dismissal are both much more complicated (expensive) than simply making it very clear you'd like someone to leave.

Psychotic IMO. We will fire you but only after you've been publicly humiliated? Who thinks to do this kind of shit?

As has been stated above, I’m guessing in this specific example it would’ve been due to the rather strict labor laws, which I’m not going to comment my opinion on, just to clarify/explain: Here (Germany), you can basically not fire someone if your company has >10 full-time employees, and they’re not actively misbehaving (or under trainee/probationary status). Yep, this statement means exactly what it reads.

So I’m guessing that’s the reason for this “passive firing” method.

So you're saying I'm invincible!

What would the third brick layer say if in fact they were building a prison? Or something less positive? I don't really understand who is the one I'm supposed to emulate here.

"I'm building the foundation to course correct individuals and reintegrate them into society".

Every VP building the most cancerous product will think they are making the world a better place. It's just a matter of perspective.

> the work I do is so bespoke and unique and novel and important that I can't be bothered to estimate how long it'll take

This absolutely can be the case some of the time though. I've never pressed back on estimates of standard work but it can be a real bastard to have to work within the "process" when you are slaying a truly novel beast. Having some jackass pestering you for updates on how long it takes to climb the beanstalk and find the golden harp is just too much.

In this economy? We have people murdering CEOs for free!

Are you saying Mangione should be tried for illegal dumping of assassination services?

Can't get hacked when you are down.

I think the implication is that people with connections who have no business touching production code are getting those jobs through fraud.