My manager took away some of my duties and reassigned them to himself. Is this a sign that middle management knows their time is up? I think they are padding their duties so they can appear to have work to do and avoid layoffs, but it's time to pay the piper! Sneaky little rascals!
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Not enough duty? Try eating more fiber
Nope, you are in trouble, polish up that resume.
Nope. We are being given more duties without proper training and the department that is supposed to be specialized in it are not. And they get paid more than our team yet a lot on that team do not know how to work on the most core part of their position.
But I have a beautiful email drafted and ready to send to this middle manager's manager. Time to sing like songbird LMAO
No reduction over here. It's the opposite in our area. More work without equivalent pay!
@OP Curious indeed. In my area, the DM was always getting/trying to get contractors to do work he was responsible for with no pay. He wouldn't hire anyone to his own team.
Some would say this was cost efficient but it is also highly illegal. There is something under the table going on with him and at least one of the vendors, getting them to do work with no pay, paying the vendor but the vendor doesn't pay the technicians, and knowingly getting overbilled for tasks which can only make sense if he gets some kind of kickback or budget bonus.
Some would say this is smart, most would call it slave labor. He acts like a plantation overseer as well, not a manager, leader or mentor.