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<p>[QUOTE="anonymous, post: 5879679"]Hospira in Morgan Hill was the most dysfunctional company I ever worked for. People wouldn't even shake your hands on the first day or even say "Good Morning" to you. You were treated like you are there to take their jobs. </p><p><br /></p><p>Most projects got cut at the 90% completion point, I noticed. Unlike the norm for Silicon Valley, it was rare to see a project go from start to finish. Even if you made a personal effort by giving up your weekends and working late, you never made it to the end before the plug got pulled by management. It seems like the idea was for one group of "temps" to do the heavy plowing and planting for "permanents" to do the harvesting. The problem with this scheme, known by anyone who has ever worked in product development, is the "almost finished" project will be left with lousy or even no documentation, since this activity is usually done at the end, when everything is finalized </p><p><br /></p><p>Many of us take pride in our ability to finish the job and wanted out even without the encouragement of Project Fuel, which was an excuse to make drastic cuts in the payroll to report greater earnings for the stock price. When the Recession final lifted, people jumped ship and the rest is history. The "pull the plug at the 90% point of the project" was a bad idea.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course this is all fictional - all resemblance to reality is purely coincidental.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="anonymous, post: 5879679"]Hospira in Morgan Hill was the most dysfunctional company I ever worked for. People wouldn't even shake your hands on the first day or even say "Good Morning" to you. You were treated like you are there to take their jobs. Most projects got cut at the 90% completion point, I noticed. Unlike the norm for Silicon Valley, it was rare to see a project go from start to finish. Even if you made a personal effort by giving up your weekends and working late, you never made it to the end before the plug got pulled by management. It seems like the idea was for one group of "temps" to do the heavy plowing and planting for "permanents" to do the harvesting. The problem with this scheme, known by anyone who has ever worked in product development, is the "almost finished" project will be left with lousy or even no documentation, since this activity is usually done at the end, when everything is finalized Many of us take pride in our ability to finish the job and wanted out even without the encouragement of Project Fuel, which was an excuse to make drastic cuts in the payroll to report greater earnings for the stock price. When the Recession final lifted, people jumped ship and the rest is history. The "pull the plug at the 90% point of the project" was a bad idea. Of course this is all fictional - all resemblance to reality is purely coincidental.[/QUOTE]
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