> “The thing that's really insidious here is that [once a person buys] into the WTF idea… they can spread it elsewhere for the duration of their career… Once people get convinced that some deviation is normal, they often get really invested in the idea.”
> [H]ow does the new hire (or anyone else) know the difference between "learning the complexity of the new system" and "internalizing/normalizing the deviance of this culture"?
The article implies that the new hire should pay close attention to the things that are incentivized, and those that are not.
> “The thing that's really insidious here is that [once a person buys] into the WTF idea… they can spread it elsewhere for the duration of their career… Once people get convinced that some deviation is normal, they often get really invested in the idea.”
> [H]ow does the new hire (or anyone else) know the difference between "learning the complexity of the new system" and "internalizing/normalizing the deviance of this culture"?
The article implies that the new hire should pay close attention to the things that are incentivized, and those that are not.