Thread regarding 3M layoffs

My managers are always....I have no clue what you are doing, but you get great reports from others that you are making things happen...so just keep doing whatever you are doing.

If I can keep that going for 4 more years, im done!!

My boss is oblivious and never follows through. We are viciously micromanaged and nobody wants to stay anymore. Clearly BB has no plans to fix this despair and suffering.

I'm in a similar situation -- I report to a director who doesn't provide any guidance or leadership -- but there's a general sense that I need to be doing more, despite my boss never articulating any real expectations for me.

It su-ks, because I'm not being told what to do but then when review time comes around

@aa
I had a boss exactly like that in R&D. Now he is retired and I am too. It so happened that could not stand strong women. But he still retired as VP R&D for an organization. He used to get scoops from his favorite planted members in the group. It was pathetic. 3M HR did not care

For many years I had a boss that detested me (he was a s-xist male and I am female). about an hour before our scheduled 1:1 monthly meeting he would text me asking: Do we need to meet this month? is there anything you want to discuss with me? Most of the time I would answer no. I ended up meeting with him about 3-4 times a year, and those rare meetings lasted about 20 minutes. he would leave my office and walk over to the open area to pal around with the guys for the remainder of our scheduled 1:1 meeting hour. Needless to say, he had no clue what I worked on, and I never got above average rating or a promotion. Such a great example of 3M "leaders".

Consider yourself lucky.