Being from Romania I can confirm that the "unconstructive quotas" exist EVERYWHERE.<br>- QA testers having to find bugs where there are none or get fired<br>- Police officers having to give out fines even when there is no one to fine or get fired<br>- Hospital workers having quotas to "treat x patients in a day" or get fired<br>- Teachers having to teach "shortcuts" or flat out give the answers to various exams in order to get "more students to pass the exam"<br>- Retail workers having to sell X amount of products even where there are no clients<br>- Various ISP workers having quotas to sell services + products daily<br>+ many other examples<br><br><br>Long story short, Romania is very good at being inefficient, and management, from what I've seen in all of the different companies I worked at, management is just there to hinder any sort of progress, sometimes even completely scrap progress in order to regress.<br><br>That is the "Romanian" way, and I'm glad that the world gets to see what kind of f'd up shit we have to deal with, especially when it affects the global market.,(reply>), I have had my fair share of bad management at my first job in Romania. Outsourced data research &amp; entry. The role was supposed to be for a advanced speaker of an Asian language (I'm not gonna say which for privacy reasons). I had no knowledge of that language, not even a single word. I had  a test and they said I should use google translate :)) I got the job and the bonus it came with. As time went on, it was harder and harder to meet the targets since data was drying up. Eventually I started failing to hit the targets and got complaints from management. Despite trying to explain that it's not my fault, they didn't listen. Instead, they hinted at a workaround to trick the system into registering old data as new. A couple more months went by and I got asked to resign (basically fired) for not meeting monthly targets, which all of sudden got way higher than what I had in my contract. Funny.<br>Anyways, it was my only bad experience working in Romania. The rest of my 3 jobs I had after that were all pretty much positive and mainly switched the jobs for higher pay and position. Currently I have the best management I ever had. Not all jobs have this bullshit quotas, some actually have empathic and competent management.,(reply>), @MultiCommissar Romania was never part of USSR, hence it was not a soviet country. Before you write your opinions online, try to be less stupid.,(reply>), Quick question, have you ever worked outside Romania?,(reply>), ​@Russian Sponge You're not. I guess the issue is how you phrased everything. You started by saying that I'm talking out of my ass, even though I only said what Godina said, and didn't even at least mention that you had family working in the field.<br><br>Looks like we're at an impasse, our arguments are in contradiction, with no apparent way for either of us to add anything that would count as additional proof.,(reply>), Not commenting on idiotic management decissions as quotas, which I myself saw in my 9 years of sysadmin, but i totally dissagree with the "get fired" part at the end of each of your sentences. To get fired in Romania, you either have to screw up big time multiple times in a row, either your employer has to go bust. It is almost impossible to fire someone in this country, because if you fire someone for unjustified reasons, you have to block the hiring process for that position for an entire year. And if you want to justify the rightfully end of contract due to lack of performance - you will have to screw over your entire pool of employees in order to prove you are not discriminating or applying double standards.