New Marketing Officer announcement coming
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Marketing org is a complete joke. Every marketer should get out.
mgmt could learn a lot about what employees think by reading this site
good stuff in this thread
@dvod+1uXDcB50 well said! 👏🏻
Token might be a bit harsh.
When there is preferential treatment in hiring, people tend to question competence.
Is there preferential treatment? When it is a stated goal of the company to change the demographics of leadership, absolutely. These goals are not a "gee, wouldn't it be nice if this randomly happened while we hire candidates on merit". It's a, "go make this happen, and by the way, you hiring managers will be evaluated on this".
Here's the kicker. The folks who were hired might be competent and might be the best that the offered money can buy. But, as long as there is anything that smells like an incentive to "diversify" people will wonder. Get rid of that, and there are no more tokens.
And by the way, it's coming. The educational system has been forced to tear down affirmative action. We're going back to the equal opportunity that is the law of the land.
@cpjc+1uXDcB50 Clearly people just go through the motions with your mandatory harassment training. We all know tokenism is alive and well at MetLife! Go buy yourself another award.
@appalling - 6 upvotes in 12 minutes?
Me thinks thou up-votest thyself.
The ‘token’ references in this post are appalling.
Hoping those individuals making those comments and holding those sentiments have already been laid off (or will be very soon), and are not colleagues working alongside me.
He's a token just like the recycled HR lady. They literally get paid to do nothing, but their headshots on the company website look good to the shareholders. Remember that when you get your annual 2% raise. They will be getting much more.
Welp. I guess we know how everyone feels about the CMO.
He's probably not fireable.
It’s not the CMO leaving. It’s one of his SVPs.
Odds are the new CMO's pronouns will be either she/her or their/them.
Not he/him.
Agree?
Keep in mind MetLife's published 2030 goals.
Token
All he had to do was unwind the previous CMO's work.
Bring back blue, white and snoopy and he'd be golden.
Considering he did nothing good riddance. Our marketing is an embarrassment in the US.
He did absolutely nothing. At least the fortune cookie plagiarized our new logo, ki-led Snoopy and walked away richer than a dry cleaner. The American Dream.
He was practically invisible.
Usually marketing peeps let you know they are there with some grand "strategy".
His LinkedIn looks more detailed. Good luck, guy.