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>>todsac+(OP)
For most of my career I opportunistically cleaned up tech debt without being asked, because I wanted to. I felt ownership. Now that I'm in a Jira-based job with micromanagement and no autonomy I don't do a single thing I don't have to do.

Discretionary effort used to be the bread and butter of my career. Now the bureaucratic and social project management overhead required for any change makes things too annoying to be worth doing if I don't have to. I don't care if the product works long term, I don't care if the company succeeds long term, I just do my tickets until I find the next job.

>>add-su+b9
It's interesting how the companies creating this culture often pride themselves on culture and think they're doing it right.

>>clnq+ST
the whole "culture" thing is managers wanting to show upper mgmt that their team is happy (even if they're usually not)

because they know deep down if their team is not happy or doesn't smile for the photos it looks bad on them.

or like "mental health and wellbeing" its a bunch of empty gestures that make no attempt at actually addressing the issues of your work (low pay, long hours, stress, pressure so on..)

>>mouzog+J72
In some exceptional companies that is not the case, and there is really an effort made. But rarely in large companies.