2025-12-01 Resilience
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When leadership speaks of resilience, I hear they're going to cut
slack out of the system until it's people's resilience that saves the
company instead of good management. And then they'll cry crocodile
tears about the burnouts. Whenever somebody else wants to increase
resilience, the silent alarm goes off and I'm looking for the next
dysfunctional decision being made at the top.

I want this system to change. I suggest the following approach: Speak
up, get up, leave the desk, and never come back.

On the personal level, of course, things are different. If I see
friends and coworkers stressing out and being fragile, what they need
is resilience. Surprisingly, the same approach often works: Speak up,
get up, leave the desk, and never come back.

I'm playing this for laughs, but it's also true. It worked for me, at
least. I changed from programming to documentation because I didn't
want to work on site at the customer's location, I didn't want the
pressure of due dates and constant issues, sprints, plannings, retros
and all the other fuckery.

I mean, in a way this is the program: Speak up, get up, leave the
desk, and never come back. Luckily my employer is pretty good and so I
got to sit down at another desk and pick up a different line of work
and I didn't have to quit for this to work.

I started feeling old. I needed a change of pace. On the individual
level, finding ways to increase resilience is fine. But finding ways
of avoidance is fine, too. At the organisational level, asking for and
planning for people to be resilient is a failure of management.

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