If you're a manager and you're a personal friend with someone who reports to you and was in scope, do you have an obligation to recuse yourself from the selection process? Asking for the ABU.
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This is hilarious. The buddy system is alive and well at Chevron. Every selection is made by prioritizing nepotism first, then buddies then everyone else.
@cg+1jyj16jre you missed the point..you must be in the buisness of kissing up
Being an a--hole is not a protected class.
We're in the business of making decisions. It's a he-l of a lot easier to make a good decision if you already trust and understand the person presenting the proposal
And then there's that tight knit circle not the most informed bunch who not only enable bullies but holiday with them, only to turn around and distance themselves the moment things go south, pretending they had no part in the decision once the bullies are exposed. Oh for the love of the purple circle!
A selection rep can pass any employee to another selection rep if he or she sees a conflict of interest.
That's nothing to do with a conflict of interest.
You don't have a vested interest (ie, you won't gain anything) if he/she gets a job or does not
There is no definition of personal friend. If he or she is a colleague from a previous assignment that remained in touch, that doesn’t make him or her a personal friend. Multiple assignments create connections and many managers bring people from older assignments as they know their performance.