Almost all the strong performers are gone, and the useless su-k-ups are still here. Our old manager still reigns supreme and remains the worst I’ve ever had the misfortune to work under. They couldn’t have messed this up more if they had tried.
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I hope they reap what they've sown by getting rid of some very talented people and keeping the "yes" mo--ns.
They let top performers, low performers, high seniority and high wage earners by design, it was NOT A MISTAKE.
@cq so true. Those people who are emailing for updates did something else - they built crazy big project teams So it looked like they were managing 50 people. If you needed to ask Tax if they wanted to review, and they said No, 5 tax people were now on the team, getting meeting invites and emails cluttering their inbox, even though they weren't involved. While it looked like they were managing a huge, complex project, they simply created an illusion to hide in. And their clueless supervisor supported this. It's all over the company. I'm on projects of 50 or more that a couple of people should knock out in a fraction of the time.
A lot of good ones gone over here too. Hard to see the reason why, it makes you wonder who’s next
@cq I would upvote your comment a thousand times if I could. The funny thing is management treated the people sending these “I need an update on these projects “ as if they were the most productive and had the most demanding jobs when in reality it took at most a couple of hours a day to send these emails and update the trackers. Completing the projects took months and faced many obstacles that had to be overcome but they considered that the easy part.
I had several different departments bombarding me with such emails. Each one thought that their projects were top priority and that I should drop everything else to attend to them. In reality I wore many hats and was in a much better position to judge which projects should be prioritized.
I won’t miss this at all!
@a1 sure is easy to never get behind when you never take on anything extra. Functional ICs replaced with email and spreadsheet trackers. The work getting done is not important. What is important is you emailed a person and you have a tracker. When they don’t reply you send another email. Then you add their boss. Looking busy now. Maybe can get four days out of this. Do that with 10 or 15 tasks and you have an impressive google sheet of updates you are following up with 3 or 4 people and their bosses. Where you aren’t actually doing any of the work, it’s not moving the project ahead. This helps you never look behind. That’s the game. And the person you are emailing will get asked if they need some help. The help? One more person emailing them asking for an update.
Yet, you're still there. Are you a weak performer or a useless su-k-up?
There was one name nobody could understand. I asked roughly 50 people and nobody could come up with a reason. Weak leadership got run over this round. When it’s no longer about performance it makes you wonder the direction is. Hire a CEO to build the company again. Stop looting.
@a4 so true, going back to bell mobile and than Verizon wireless they wouldn't let management give there top workers/talent even 1% extra to keep them here our they leave. I never heard anyone getting outside the normal or ever a bump anytime but raise time. Yes people had promotions and they were even very hard to get and some of those were a wash.
@OP Keeping the useless su-kups while getting rid of the ICs that were more knowledgeable than their manager is a feature not a bug.
We lost our best, brightest, most experienced person, promoted a few years ago, still grossly underpaid.
yup same here OP.
@OP that was ways the normal way here for layoffs and so on. They never rewarded talent fo way back.
Our department fired all the best people, especially those good project managers who challenged the status quo. Seems all they wanted were yes people who never made waves and could only do one task at a time slowly.