#directorpolitics

Heard Director's, Managers and Senior Managers will be affected greatly. Specially management positions in India will be removed drastically.

The only way to cut down on bureaucracy and be cost responsible at the same time is to actually thin the leadership layers.

Stop approving vp-reports-to-vp nonsense, systematically thin the senior director level and give their authority back to people actually close to IC's.

Anything beyond this is lip service to excuse layoffs of people who actually do the work.

Dow managers will decide who to lay off based on complex factors like personal disputes, retaliation, maintaining dominance and status, rivalries, and internal power struggles, often stemming from cycles of stupidity , lack of opportunity, trauma, and loyalty, with layoffs often escalating through social contagion and misidentification in social networks.

Can we take bets on how many demos break down or how many lies the director of quality will tell?

directors will know tomorrow AM whether or not they are canned. SHould we assume if the director is safe, our team is safe?

has anyone else gotten a “slap on the wrist” for reaching out to a director to talk about an issue? i was recently warned by my manager that reaching out to a director and skipping the order of management could lead to termination. isn’t this a bit much?!

Sometimes I'm puzzled by the director of business development position. It feels like their main tasks,attending calls and presenting targets at QBRs,are things that any competent manager could easily handle. The most confusing part is their constant international travel to meet with BDRs. It seems like a lot of time and resources for meetings that could be more efficient in other ways. One of the directors is visiting Europe currently and why? To meet BDRs.

Span of control for directors was 20, does this apply to senior directors as well as many of them have less than this?

Many moon ago there was a rule that a director had to have at least four direct reports. Now, it seems most have few or no direct reports. It also seems like everyone is a director. The unemployment rate got so low hon was forced to promote folks to director positions or they would leave.

The problem is that many of these "directors" know nothing of how to truly lead. I can't remember the last time I was in a meeting with the director's manager being in attendance. There seems to be no accountability for incompetent leadership.

How did it get so top heavy.

Aero

Is it typically your direct supervisor, one level above them or two levels above them? How does it work?

ibm canada laid me off in ottawa after 9 years, and just weeks later they labeled me a low performer... i got an email saying this, even though my last review was positive. i asked my manager in toronto why it happened, and he said his director in austin told him to do it, adding that he never thought i'd find out. ibm does this so they can backfill the role with someone else... pure evil!!!

i think the ceo and senior executives are slowly ki-ling ibm because revenue is not really growing. every year they lay off thousands in north america, europe, and canada, then move jobs to india to cut labor costs by 80%. they make revenue look fine each quarter, but it's a scam cheating the shareholders.

When I worked at Fannie 10+ years ago, there was the Manager->Director->VP hierarchy. Now when I check LinkedIn, there's Manager, Senior Manager, Director, Senior Director. And a lot more people appear to have those titles. Why did they make that change? Seems like too many managers and directors.