vp bolted so directors are now trying to level up themselves by punching down on the lower level members on the team. it’s actually stunning how far you can go by giving all your work to your juniors with zero direction and then publicly dressing them down when it’s not up to your (see: dipsh-t) standards. so much for being an industry veteran when someone with no experience can tell you how it is. the job hunt continues!
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Lazy Employees Who Make No Effort
In the past few months, I’ve noticed a significant increase of emails being sent by employees to other departments for “assistance”.
They make no effort to elaborate on the issue or explain why they cannot handle the request themselves. It’s the classic dump & run, the “please read the full email chain and figure it out for me, thanks” variety. To make matters worse, they copy others to email to make it look like they are aggressively handling the issue, then I have them blowing up my email box for follow-ups.
I’m tired of the complete lack of respect for my time. Management couldn’t give a sh--e about it.
How wide spread of an issue is this?
I’ve decided to start ignoring these emails and hopefully send the silent message to stop the insanity.
I’m not your secretary, DO IT YOURSELF!
How many managing directors does it take to sc--w in a lightbulb?
None—they delegate it to a Lead, take credit for the brighter future, and bonus themselves for “illuminating” the department.
Management policy changes
The company decided to pause their AI push, as the low hanging fruit has been harvested, and further adoption requires substantial investment and training. To decrease costs, they now aim to reduce the number of MDs by delegating their work to VPs, reduce the number of VPs by delegating their work to AVPs, and to reduce the number of FTEs in India to Indian contractors.