Technology was meant to herald a new way of working, but that’s not the case
<p><pre><code>    &gt; And, truth be told, you probably don’t trust most of your colleagues
    &gt; or your boss, either.
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From all the places I worked at as an employee or a freelancer in the last twenty years, in the US or in Germany, that was <i>not</i> true for about 2&#x2F;3rd of them. And the remaining 1&#x2F;3rd wasn&#x27;t so much that I didn&#x27;t trust my colleagues, the whole place was &quot;lost&quot;. For example my 2nd job, in a startup with waaayyyyyy too much money and attention for its own good.<p>Even if I include the time of my apprenticeship in an East German (GDR) chemical factory of several thousand employees, even there the majority of people did a <i>good</i> job at work and were competent.<p>Even when I extend that to numerous summer jobs in a brewery, sausage factory, chocolate factory and a dozen others (non-food), I rarely had the impression that the sentence I quoted demonstrates.<p>That a job may be useless - okay, that happens a lot, but I can rarely attribute it to complete incompetence, most of it is much larger forces at work than an individual - even a CEO - can fight. And yes, sometimes people are in over their head, but that happens, so what. In the day to day operations I must have been incredibly lucky that my experiences are overall very positive? Hard to believe.<p>Since &quot;trust&quot; is the centerpiece of that article I question whether their entire premise is even true.