> This cynical surrendering is not keeping bureaucracy at bay, at all. It's joining the bureaucracy and increasing its size. It is the bureaucracy.
It is keeping it at bay in the context of a team. My company is a company with seemingly more paperwork than the government (and I used to work in government).
Until a few weeks ago, I saw none of it as an individual developer (then we got individual specific paperwork and I looked at the required paperwork in the Google drive). A little digging turned up exactly why he doesn't have time to write code anymore. I would have called my company extremely low in bureaucracy before that.
How does that work? He is constantly in meetings with senior people. So my manager keeps the bureaucracy at bay from the perspective of me by joining it.
It is keeping it at bay in the context of a team. My company is a company with seemingly more paperwork than the government (and I used to work in government).
Until a few weeks ago, I saw none of it as an individual developer (then we got individual specific paperwork and I looked at the required paperwork in the Google drive). A little digging turned up exactly why he doesn't have time to write code anymore. I would have called my company extremely low in bureaucracy before that.
How does that work? He is constantly in meetings with senior people. So my manager keeps the bureaucracy at bay from the perspective of me by joining it.