I severely overestimated the number of conferences my jobs would send me to

i never went to why conferences when i was in computers, although i wish i had. culture definitely doesn’t promote it, although they should. it’s just dumb not to foster professional growth in some of your most valuable employees.

now that I’m in medicine they actively encourage it and i still haven’t gone lol. hopefully will get to one or two this year though.

bizarre how corporate cultures get things so wrong sometimes

i think it has more to do with the culture of continuing education in medicine that people really prioritize. still happens with the engineers obviously, but the higher ups haven’t prioritized it like they should. fostering growth in your employees makes good business sense, it’s just not immediately obvious to the bean counters.

if unions worked the way they should these are the sorts of issues they’d be good at negotiating.

yeah it’s a shame.no reason professionals can’t unionize though when they’re cogs in a big corporate environment. the civil servants, including all the engineers, were unionized when i was at nasa. unions aren’t entirely blameless for the state they’ve fallen to, though.