It's the difference between working in a push vs a pull shop.
In a push shop (e.g. most non-tech businesses / legacy tech), one is forbidden from working on a thing without management signing off on it and pushing the task to you.
In a pull shop, management communicates priorities (increase reliability) and engineering teams pull tasks to fulfill that.
Believe parent is talking about the former, which is always a cluster&#+@ of technically clueless middle management.
In a push shop (e.g. most non-tech businesses / legacy tech), one is forbidden from working on a thing without management signing off on it and pushing the task to you.
In a pull shop, management communicates priorities (increase reliability) and engineering teams pull tasks to fulfill that.
Believe parent is talking about the former, which is always a cluster&#+@ of technically clueless middle management.