> It’s a systemic failure of the entire company, and it reflects negatively on all of us.
> [...] You either need to fix Google’s long term support issues from the inside, or expect more of the same.
Some of us knowingly work for organizations that, in the aggregate, are crap.
We stay and do the best we can.
If somebody put that bullcrap of fixing our entire system on me, I'd laugh. Pretend you did that to me -- I would think that you have a poor understanding of the systemic issues causing the problems that bother you.
To me there isn't a clear line from "present" to "desirable future", and simplistic approaches ("antitrust disassemble google") to complex problems aren't actually going to work (all IMO).
Sometimes you do the best you can, help the people you can help, and feel sorry for the rest... but leaving isn't going to make it better, it's going to make it worse, because your work is above average.
Actually, I guess the parent knows this since the are still working in the automobile industry but for others - perhaps what's needed is just a thicker hide, and a willingness to say "yep, it's gonna get killed at some point, good thing we MADE IT OPEN SOURCE so others can carry it forward."
> [...] You either need to fix Google’s long term support issues from the inside, or expect more of the same.
Some of us knowingly work for organizations that, in the aggregate, are crap.
We stay and do the best we can.
If somebody put that bullcrap of fixing our entire system on me, I'd laugh. Pretend you did that to me -- I would think that you have a poor understanding of the systemic issues causing the problems that bother you.
To me there isn't a clear line from "present" to "desirable future", and simplistic approaches ("antitrust disassemble google") to complex problems aren't actually going to work (all IMO).
Sometimes you do the best you can, help the people you can help, and feel sorry for the rest... but leaving isn't going to make it better, it's going to make it worse, because your work is above average.
Actually, I guess the parent knows this since the are still working in the automobile industry but for others - perhaps what's needed is just a thicker hide, and a willingness to say "yep, it's gonna get killed at some point, good thing we MADE IT OPEN SOURCE so others can carry it forward."