Notices by mia duval 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 (portugeek@c.im)

@Daojoan Until recently I was working for a massive European institution that was rolling out a new way to “measure” our work. Basically everything had to be a project, so everyone’s work can be quantified within PM tools. It doesn’t matter what the actual contribution of the individual is, if there isn’t a metric for it within a project, it wasn’t valuable. Even regular maintenance work had to be shoehorned into projects just in case upper management thought it useless and discarded it.

This quantify everything trend is happening everywhere for every department. If it’s not measurable, it’s not important. If you can only see your organisation’s work via a spreadsheet, you don’t know diddly squat about it and the work it does. These people want to know the cost of everything, because they can’t understand the value of anything.

@SleepyCatten Listen to Evie, she is a smart gal. And she is absolutely right, you know? You cannot live in accordance with what others want to have from you. “The reward for conformity is that everybody likes you... except yourself." @Rch