• R0cket_M00se@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61·
    11 months ago

    The short term benefits are the reason they’re doing this in the first place.

    Immediate revenue and growth is the goal, long term business viability and consumer base is an acceptable sacrifice to meet that goal.

    Who cares if the company went under five months after I left! When I was the CEO we had record profits

    • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world
      24·
      11 months ago

      Who cares if the company went under five months after I left! When I was the CEO we had record profits

      Then they re-hire you for an exorbitant price to fix the problems you created. The Bob Iger technique.

      • Mirshe@lemmy.world
        3·
        11 months ago

        Or you have a golden parachute clause so you leave with $3.6mil as everything burns around you.

    • antrosapien@lemmy.ml
      6·
      11 months ago

      How come it is sustainable when executives or even workers are not even interested in their own product. I know a few devs at some mid sized company and they don’t even care about what they are working on

      • Croquette@sh.itjust.works
        71·
        11 months ago

        There is such a huge sludge of dumb and inane softwares that inevitably some people will work on things that they don’t care about.

        Some people just want the paycheck and that’s fine.