If I had insider info on a company then I’ll sell my clothes, car, house, grandma and go all in. OP just has a good feeling cause the company’s name is Monday and their earning calls was on …. Monday
Here’s some insight from the inside for you. There are two US military NGAD contracts. One for the Navy and one for the Air Force. There are only two companies bidding for the USAF contract Boeing & Lockheed. The USN contract is Boeing, Lockheed, and Northrup.
Boeing’s defense production hub is in St. Louis for air dominance. Boeing bought out KLX in 2018, (massive, small machined parts and kit distributor). They bought out what was GKN aerospace who produced many composite materials and assemblies. They are building a massive 1.8M square foot complex right next door to the older production building where they made the F15 and the F18. Just last year they sent an email to all employees in STL to vote on a new STL Boeing logo.. There is an unnamed, unrecognizable aircraft silhouette at the top of the logo with the other main Boeing defense related aircraft. It looks like a triangle UFO.
What do you think is going to happen and why there is so much movement in STL?
I had to use Monday at a company I worked at and absolutely hated it. It's just a program for managerial types, basically the 2020s equivalent of yesteryear's timesheets. The biggest problem with this software is that it requires workers (the people who actually make stuff and do stuff) to use software to input for the benefit of their managers. That's all. It's double work, and it benefits managers. After using it a few years I became so over the whole program, it's just corporate bloatware.
Almost all corporate software is a grift. Lie to management and say it'll fix everything, only to hold them in a contract, fix like one actual concern, and let the obscene amount of money roll in.
This. It’s glorified micromanagement. It’s tech meant to make it easier for middle managers to micromanage every single day you have.
I had one job who used it and it just added an hour of work each day while we filled out what we did on specific projects each day. I eventually just stopped using it and ignored the warnings I got. Then I left for a better job.
That's exactly what it ended up being for us. Our designers and engineers had to fill out time sheets and project sheets, stuff that PMs should be keeping track of, but didn't. It was like a crutch for useless managers and the work just gets put on the actual producers.
Ownership and others liked it because it showed them how to scope and bill projects in the future, but I don't think anyone ever took into account all the cost that went into the people who filled it out at the behest of actual billable work and deliverables. On top of that, managers spent more time reminding everyone to fill in their project sheets than doing anything productive themselves. Corporate America.
I started my own company and we all use Slack for managing projects, it's so much simpler and more robust than Monday for our workflow. Nowadays I would look at any company that uses Monday and question the quality of their output.
I used to teach Excel and loved it. I make spreadsheets in it for fun.
These Monday c*nts used to run ads on my YouTube feed all the time 'are you tired of those annoying Excel spreadsheets? Use monday.com!'.
No.. I fucking don't... Drives me crazy.
Yep, you get to do the work and spend ~1.5hrs figuring out how to tick all the boxes so that the PM can yell at you for not having all your tasks done.
pro tip, you should have your proj manager or scrum master have the license of Monday and force them to check the boxes for you. It will reduce the overall level of bullshit you experience.
we use it where I work now (in IT). we use it for project tracking, inventory, tasking, issue tracking, meeting notes, and general notes. but i will agree that yes, it is just excel on steroids.
I do like being able to create a small spreadsheet that we can email out a link to hiring managers, and when they answer the questions it pre-fills the monday sheet, its made onboarding extremely easier (and a good CYA for when they say something wasnt set up right).
Same, and it’s also extremely expensive for what is on offer. Sure, you can “customise” it to a ridiculous degree (with their premium subscription), but it’s still little more than a glorified project management tool. It doesn’t do anything special that a free Trello account doesn’t do. Seems like it’s more just geared towards high volume sales teams.
Side note: a fond memory of mine was when an unknown third party signed up to the service using my credit card. Monday.com customer service refused to stop the subscription because I was not the “account owner”, but also refused to delete the (stolen) card details because their “policy requires saved card details at all times”. Had to cancel my card, and the bank still had some weird scheme where they shared the replacement card details with Monday.com. Took a lot of escalation with the bank over 3 months to get it resolved.
Not surprised of their high revenues at all. The software is nothing special at all though.
I'm going to sound like a total nutcase considering all of these comments agreeing with you, but the very small team I am on uses it and we all really like it, it really helps to visualize what projects are being worked on and when someone is stuck and why, the automations are helpful, it's been pretty good for us
Edit: even our facilities manager who is pretty tech illiterate doesn't mind it so much
It's a task management system that works pretty well if a lot of effort is put in by people using it.
The hillarious thing is that it's user base seems to all have monday morning task review meetings. It causes the servers to bog down horribly every Monday morning to the point it is almost unusable. So Monday.com does not work on mondays.
Presumably, but only after you get completely locked into the walled garden by developing workflows in a proprietary calendar/email/database low-code, no-code environment.
I do know what Monday does, but I don't understand what made you buy option for it.
When did you buy it? Why Monday and not another stock like ADBE or PLRX?
It's a project management app for bigger teams to coordinate (usually software) releases, dates and attached data all in one place. When you assign people a job, they automatically get an email. When they finish the job and update the documentation on Monday (the app), it emails you back.
Source: I do QA for apps in my company and we use this to communicate with other companies easily.
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