Sometimes the real reason is uncomfortable and they don’t want to say it out loud. Like, “the CEO is an idiot, and wants it this way for stupid reasons”
Though maybe “the CEO doesn’t understand how Google calendar works, so he thinks putting our time off in a shared spreadsheet is easier” would satisfy?
At my job a lot of stupid things come out of “someone high ranking doesn’t understand computers” or “they don’t benefit from fixing this, so it’s easier for them to leave it stupid”
Sometimes the real reason is uncomfortable and they don’t want to say it out loud. Like, “the CEO is an idiot, and wants it this way for stupid reasons”
Though maybe “the CEO doesn’t understand how Google calendar works, so he thinks putting our time off in a shared spreadsheet is easier” would satisfy?
At my job a lot of stupid things come out of “someone high ranking doesn’t understand computers” or “they don’t benefit from fixing this, so it’s easier for them to leave it stupid”
In my experience the reason is often “because fuvk [relevant slur]”