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Tuesday: more walking
Nov. 9th, 2021 11:00 pmI walked A. in. I walked over to get her. I went for a walk with M. I’m starting to feel pretty close to normal. This was a much less stressful reaction; no GI issues at all.
R. made pulled pork and I made cole slaw. Mmmmmm.
I had a great convo with K. She’s clearly a great line manager in addition to her many other roles. In texts with B., I’m noticing a real theme, about how hard it is to hire people to do operations work. For both B. and K., their main management headaches revolve around previous managers hiring dev-side people to do operations/admin type work. I get why this happens. B. noted there are real training issues, because the business school degree programs either don’t provide enough technical chops or they are aimed too high on the food chain for an operations person. There are also pay discrepancies that represent a larger problem with our society (we always pay people who “touch the stuff” less than we pay people who don’t have to “touch the stuff” — nurses vs. doctors, line workers vs. management, ops vs. devs). K. discovered, however, that she can actually license out some or all of a bunch of the operations work, which is amazing — and for way less money, too. Ops people working through the aaS company are likely filling 3-4 equivalents embedded in the customer companies, so the lower pay per adds up to meaningful money. I’ll try to remember to poke at it and see if I can find out how common this kind of service is. If it becomes really common, it’s definitely going to impact organization sizes going forward (Like Everything Else Does, I know.).
R. made pulled pork and I made cole slaw. Mmmmmm.
I had a great convo with K. She’s clearly a great line manager in addition to her many other roles. In texts with B., I’m noticing a real theme, about how hard it is to hire people to do operations work. For both B. and K., their main management headaches revolve around previous managers hiring dev-side people to do operations/admin type work. I get why this happens. B. noted there are real training issues, because the business school degree programs either don’t provide enough technical chops or they are aimed too high on the food chain for an operations person. There are also pay discrepancies that represent a larger problem with our society (we always pay people who “touch the stuff” less than we pay people who don’t have to “touch the stuff” — nurses vs. doctors, line workers vs. management, ops vs. devs). K. discovered, however, that she can actually license out some or all of a bunch of the operations work, which is amazing — and for way less money, too. Ops people working through the aaS company are likely filling 3-4 equivalents embedded in the customer companies, so the lower pay per adds up to meaningful money. I’ll try to remember to poke at it and see if I can find out how common this kind of service is. If it becomes really common, it’s definitely going to impact organization sizes going forward (Like Everything Else Does, I know.).