>>41057543Generally speaking they're happy to keep doing something wrong so long as its what management wants them to do. They will also overwork to an extent that even puts yanks (who already overwork themselves) to shame.
We do industrial software and hardware integration for legacy industrial equipment and as part of a temporary partnership with a Japanese company who were modernising some equipment for a Jap company they sent some of their own people and a few managers over to work with us. Basically their people couldn't quite figure it out on their own so they sub contracted a lot of the work to us.
So as I said the flunkies would happily keep doing things wrong and keep breaking things so long as it was what the managers had demanded.
And they would happily do this repeatedly for twelve to fourteen hours a day.
The managers meanwhile were a bunch of utterly stuck up snobs. They acted like feudal warlords and demanded that sort of respect. So they expected anyone "under them" to bow as they walked past, they each had a minion running around after them to get them stuff, do a lot of their work and of course constantly flatter them. Oh and of course those managers have no relevant experience or training. They're trained to be managers.
Now give them long enough and they do get shit done. Their solutions are rarely elegant but they work.
Problem is it takes them so long to get there because they're so subservient to managers who have little idea what they're doing.
And they overwork themselves to the point that their productivity in the time they're actually working plummets.
Oh and of course they're hungover half the time because the managers keep dragging them out for drinks.
The experience was fucking nightmarish. Our management said "never again" after that experience. What should have taken two months dragged on for a year.
