It took me a while to give up, but I'm now done. Things have turned so toxic that I don't want to stay at Windstream a day longer than I have to. I'm determined to be gone before the end of January.
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Totally a B-m company, non existent management, I was sent packing 8 years ago when I would not change time codes to earn less and work more. Asked to train my replacement no less, Did I earn getting canned, Yes. When you cannot TRUST your manager you have to take a stand. I did not need that caustic atmosphere after 8 years of 24x7 on call a week at a time.
Just get another remote gig and work both. Do very little for Windstream and watch how long it takes them to put you on the severance list. I've dodged so many it's unreal. When you get severed you get to collect a nice little bonus for putting up with TTs bonetrain for however long you've suffered. Even prisoners get more privileges than WS employees.
@1icq+1qnAhDRM a lot of this is because of the FLA program and other offshoots. We guaranteed promotions to FLA just for making a satisfactory and at the end of five years guaranteed them staff manager. Every year they rotate to a new team so they are never anywhere long enough to actually learn anything.
Those people got promoted to management with almost no real experience. Then promote their FLA buddies. They are constantly pushed in front of leadership so they are top of mind for promotions to Director and above.
They are an infestation in the org chart.
This job was great back when I started in 2007, I felt like I finally made it, got an office that overlooked the river. Everyone I worked with was cool and fun, then we started acquiring all these failing companies as part of what I can only describe as a check kiting scheme.
Then as the years started to go by the company started getting toxic, you'd see people who could barely do their jobs get promoted into management and suddenly everyone who worked for them was a genius compared to their skillset.
Then the flavor of the week director would get brought in, make a lot of noise about how things were going to change, bring in their buddies, get them paid while not fixing any issues.
After all of these years you need to realize that your coworkers are people also and you should treat them with respect and remember the real enemy isn't the people you work with, its the customers. Those lazy, childish, ungrateful people should be happy they have service at all. Its not our problem they chose to live out in the middle of no where.
I'm looking for another job as well, I'm not going to quit this one until I'm a few weeks in. Everyone should be shopping for a new job, there are some great places over there that don't p-e on your head and tell you its just rain.
On 2nd thought, upper decker your own toilet and blame it on the company.
Just be sure to upper decker the toilet on your way out, assuming you don't work from home.