• Carighan Maconar@lemmy.world
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      Took me a lot of years to not think it’s my company that is being run into the ground. I should not - and nowadays could not - care any less.

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          Reading about it, it seems they are in fact all the same. Even the white haribo mice. TIL.

          Yeah, in a way. As in, I don’t feel like I have any responsibility in things in the company going to shits (which I would if it were, well, my company).

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      The book The Responsibility Virus helped me a lot with this. Most people are over-responsible for the choices of others, specifically ones they can’t reasonably influence, anyway.

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          Yes. This lies among the reasons I find it easier not to blame enterprises for their dysfunctions. The unsustained growth imperative of our economic systems makes the Gervais Principle behavior the path of least resistance. Indeed, the only way to stop it seems to come down to the heroism of one key influential person who chooses differently.

          This also accounts for why I stopped trying to fix enterprises and instead focus on helping the well-meaning people who otherwise would need to fend for themselves.

      • alex [they, il]@jlai.lu
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        I’m afraid I’d be even more depressed by the wtf moments in a public organisation, but I am also considering it.