Every task is marked urgent, but planning is almost nonexistent, and the list of measurables keeps growing. Cuts leave teams stretched beyond capacity. The constant message is just to be grateful you still have a job. Keeping operations moving under these conditions is exhausting.
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I moved out of HR and that was the best move for me. It was frustrating to never receive or hear the backdrops on decisions.
@k4 Not sure why the downvotes but more than willing to hear feedback.
I get the prevailing mentality is to only do 'just enough' because the company is viewed as mistreating it's employees. There are 2 sides to that though and a long time ago I realized one is way better for myself and my career.
Treat it as a challenge to better yourself - why would you want to be bored everyday? If you don't feel you are paid enough or mistreated at your current company... go somewhere else. Change is hard and it's easier said than done in today's job market but it's a lot easier to market yourself if you lean into innovation and upskilling yourself.
Upskilling yourself is the only way to get ahead in the market today. It's not about making your bosses happy - it's about making yourself more marketable for your next job.
For this company and this executive "leadership" team? Hahaha no. Not going to expend that kind of effort to help improve processes.
They should count themselves fortunate if I do a passable job, the inefficient way.
@eq its not about getting put somewhere innovative... its about being a Force and making innovation where you are at. I started in the most uninnovative department anywhere and ended up inventing things used across the industry today.
Look for things, understand things, and look for gaps that you can close.
They understand it perfectly, it’s call self preservation.
@b3 I was so frustrated when I kept asking why, asking the right questions, asking to be put on things that glow you and grow you at the same time if you will, and nothing came out of it. So they took inventory of my duties and decided I didn't provide the value needed to move the needle. I wasn't innovative, hadn't made life easier for colleagues, or the company. Then I was put on the chopping board during layoffs. I have no doubt my old job is allowing someone in India to have their naan buttered, while I contend with beans in cans, and rationing my provision because my income is non existent.
Shame on anyone who lays people off without a thought. Bottom line, it's nice and all to wanting to be on the innovation side of things, harder to actually be where innovation is happening.
100%
@a3 I've been in the industry for a looooong time and let me tell you a pattern I've seen... off-shore workers are good for 1 thing and only 1 thing - doing things on a checklist. I have VERY rarely seen anything innovative come from off-shore workers so lean in there. Do the innovative stuff that provides actual impact. Stop doing things on a check-list unless you are at the beginning of your career.
Understand the WHY of the thing you are doing so you can make new things... people from India will never be able to keep up with that... be the person that MAKES the checklists.
The issue in some teams starts with a lot of USA mgmt dumping unreasonable loads of work to an understaffed team, that team has offshore members willing to take on that work, those offshore employees pushing more productivity than onshore employees, upper management catching whiff of this data and deciding the best move is to open new positions out of USA.
Don’t dump work on others and don’t let them outwork you either.
It’s a vicious game