If you’re not in the inner circle, your ideas get crushed before they even leave your mouth. They protect each other at all costs and make it impossible for anything new or useful to actually get done. I'm about ready to walk away because this has become unbearable.
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@1wp oh here we go with the rif guessing. Nothing will happen to after the sale. If that even happens by 2026
November RIF incoming…
And how are the remaining incestuous Southpointe nepos in Western PAgoing to handle being managed by new leadership who aren’t their cousins come January?
Honestly supply chain, you've just described every group at south point.
@1p1 All the family business going on in Pittsburgh is child's play compared to the calamity currently unfolding in Houston.
All the great "collaborative" relationships between depts is a smoke screen for upper mgmt. It's pretty easy when they're all cousins. Behind the scenes they're tanking anyone with talent to protect the family dynasty. What a joke.
@br some people too much weight on where other people get a degree. Usually it’s because they are angry that they paid for a more pricey, competitive school and were expecting to have higher level jobs. It’s a real hit to your ego, I’m sure. Getting a degree and where it’s from will only get you so far…it’s the other factors such as what you did with it, your EQ (not IQ), motivation, and ability to win people over.
If you keep knocking on people’s degrees, it just sounds like jealousy.
This is why someone from Devry, ITT tech, Univ of Phoenix is in middle management at Crown is because of their family link. Lmao.
If you interview with someone who has Devry on their resume, look elsewhere.
Did auditing and consulting for years and have never seen, to even the smallest degree, anything like the nepotism/fraternization issue that Crown has. Rampant. Its not an everyday corporate thing. Its rampant.
If I had a restaurant and the chef, hostess and bartender are all related, I may own it but they certainly control it. I'm at their mercy. 1000 different ways to take advantage of me. Nibbling away at the edges while smiling at my face.
Its basic.
Supply chain sounds just like sales, accounting, project management, yada yada yada. I submitted honest well thought out reviews on ten people only to have the manager rearrange them and give the bulk of bonuses to her cousin and high school buddy. Who of course did nothing but run personal businesses from work all year. It was DISGUSTING. Seen it over and over. Just DISGUSTING.
Raises , promotions, support, it all goes to the family circle. Crown dug its own grave by allowing it to happen.
They claim "oh it doesn't matter they're in separate departments". BS. Pss someone off in accounting then suddenly you get no support from property. why? Their sister is Director. Pss someone of in sales and suddenly you get no support from finance. why? The bloodlines run DEEP. Everything is cross functional and all the mgmt are related.
First corporate job?
Come to supply chain you’ll see the clique in all its glory. People failing hiring tests relevant to the position yet somehow still getting the position. Creating new positions with no posting or interview process. Folks getting fired simply because their boss doesn’t like them. Directors that literally do nothing all day and have no experience whatsoever in their role, yet somehow are able to sit for years at a time and collect fat checks, not to mention bonus. Then when bonus time comes around somehow all of their friends get extra money and deserving people get sc--wed over. It’s disgusting. It’s pure corruption. All enabled by terrible leadership (BR/DS). And it’s widespread at crown. The good news is dysfunction can never sustain itself. Eventually, the clique will end for one reason or another and these people will be in a scenario where they have to actually display their skills and they will fail. That will be a good day. I will be long gone by the time that happens but it will feel good seeing the “Open to Work” post on LinkedIn….
I actually did walk away. Blew KPIs out of the water w my team. Blew them out of the water. Manager was so threatened because they hadn't been able to even once in 10 years that they started harassing my staff and I. Not imagined at all. Said f it and quit. It was one of the nepo mgrs. related to half the dept and half the leadership. Happens all the time. Its EXACTLY why Crown is in the position they're in. Been going on 15/18 years. It started in sales and permeated the whole business. My instance was in accounting. If they don't clear out middle mgmt they will never thrive.
Crown Castle doesn’t deserve to be sold.
@am not cool, If everyone who cared walked away, the same people breaking things would still be in charge. Change doesn’t come from silence, but here, speaking up with your name attached just gets you punished.
Don’t be the person who kicks people while they are down, that’s gross.
Walk away then.