Why are you EMIT employees so upset that BK said hotshots should go work somewhere else if they thought they would make more money? It keeps being posted about and how BK should apologize. Hotshot itself is not a derogatory term. Do you feel BK was suggesting you are not actually good enough to land a job elsewhere? If it bothers you so much why don’t you just leave?
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Why all the blather on this dead follicle on top a pi-ple on the ar$e of EM.
You expect respect for IT personnel in this company?
They don't respect Engineers - Petroleum, Chemical or otherwise.
So any bile ki---r can deliver that simple message.
(BTW. If you can call yourself a Consultant, and blunder your way through any "cost-saving" measure description - you are the Man! You have garnered some black gold lemme tell you. Gabriel's ho-n.)
BK #out
Could we just have someone at EMIT who, ya know, knows a thing or two about IT? Heck, can we get someone with some sense of humility?
BK is single handedly the primary reason folks are leaving EMIT in droves. Well, sure, Id be remiss if I didnt mention the fact that software engineers are getting paid 3x more, but BK made it easy for them to leave. He basically pushed them to quit. Im a manager in EMIT and I've lost 30+ engineers in this week alone. EMIT is broken, and its rooted in BK and his inflammatory remarks.
He issued a challenge - many took him up on it. He was addressing a group of EM’s biggest assets, no? But spoke as if they were his biggest a-s*s.
If your significant other said “hey hotshot, if you think you can do better…….” You would not feel challenged?
In a way, BK's comments while demeaning helped separate the top talent from the overpaid talent. The top talent left EMIT for high paying jobs elsewhere. The overpaid talent might have done some looking at outside roles and realized they weren't getting better offers. So now we have an EMIT that is full of overpaid people. Great job BK.
It’s 100% the way he said it. How he said it, everyone knew he was saying “You’re not as talented as you think. Try and go find a better job I dare you. You need a reality check, for your talent level we are practically overpaying you, you can’t get a better job elsewhere.”
He, like many coming from the business, had no faith in EMIT. Without realizing the business is the reason EMIT can’t do it’s job effectively. So he’s always treated EMIT, his own org, as id--ts. When I’m reality we have some id--ts, which is inescapable, and a lot of smart people who proved him completely wrong and left for 100%-200% salary increases at top tech companies. And plenty of others who went to our “benchmark” salary companies for 25%-75% salary increases.
His comment, without context and tone, was not really anything. With tone it was something. With the context being that nobody above him has pressured him at all into apologizing, that says a ton. If he made a mistake on his own fine whatever. But nobody else in management cares to ask him to correct his mistake? Especially after attrition of top talent is in part due to his comment he hasn’t apologized for? Yea that’s a really bad sign for anyone who is still left in EMIT. That’s why people still mention it. It’s one thing to make a mistake, it’s another to double down and fail to realize it was a mistake. Or perhaps it wasn’t a mistake and they want top talent attrition? Wouldn’t put it past them to think all attrition is equal.
The way BK said it was insulting. It felt as if he does not value his own people and he challenged us to leave. A “leader” should be more in tune with the environment and not make such callous remarks. BK is a failure.
I’ve not left yet because I’m hanging on for another year for retirement.
Its a mechanism for other Supervisors and Managers (SDMs with terrible attrition rates) to make excuses for why their people are leaving so they make sure to talk about it as much as possible. They blame BK for all their problems. He isn’t a great leader, but people don’t work for their VPs. They work for their L4 and L5 who should be the ones they interface with the most and who create the culture, environment and common organizational goals. EMIT implemented SDMs a few years ago because they thought it would help with career roadmaps and create clarity for people. These SDMs aren’t even assessed on the attrition rate in their groups. What are they even assessed on if not for attrition rates against some sort of baseline?? Some of the worst SDMs I’ve seen are in UIT. They complain and complain about everything and do nothing to really help make their people have better line-of-site in their next few years (which is what people really want). For upcoming assessments they should talk about which SDMs had the worst attrition rates and WHY. (Hint: it isn’t BK or salaries in many cases). The SDM position is a joke, and is effectively a HR position to create more roles for 25-27 CL employees who can’t cut it in the technical IT world.