Has this become a company of mediocrity or what? Is there no more room here for people who have the skills and expertise? I'm just watching the biggest mediocrities here climb the social ladder while the remaining talented people are being forced to leave. It is quite logical that it is in the best interest of mediocrities to get rid of the remaining talented and capable people.
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Bluntly; I now think it would have been better to have sold us out from under the dolts in Ferguson. At least we could have had an opportunity to expereince the possibility of a well manged company...thought I'm sure we still would have had to put up with the woke-aassss mentality.
I left Emerson and concluded it's not that different anywhere else. At a recent annual review after leaving Emerson, my manager told me he couldn't rate me as 'exceptional', even though he felt I deserved it, because they had only so many slots for that designation. It reminded me of Emerson where they have already chosen individuals to be future leaders, and no amount of hard-work or positive results is going to get your name on the list of those already identified for promotion, only office politics. If you didn't find a manager willing to sponsor you early on then you are out of luck. At least I am making over twice as much as I was at Emerson, so that takes some of the sting out of it. It reminds me of high-school, where you are either popular or not. My advice would be to get your own side gig and focus on solving problems. Ultimately, companies like Emerson will collapse by promoting brown-nosers for the wrong reasons and the leeches can move on to your company and slowly destroy it as well, but by then you will be retired and won't care anymore.
Upper management usually gets a ‘cakewalk’ MBA from the local University’s “executive” branch. If you have a
Pulse in one hand and a check in the other, you’ll graduate.
This situation is a result of inbreeding; not ambition.
It’s always been that way. Lots of administrators. Very few people that know how to do. Emerson is worse than big govt.
We did have several engineers outside rolla - illinois and purdue to name those already mentioned. Probably too many mba’s and Ivy League at the top?
My groups worked hard a getting rid of dead wood. There are lots of good people trying to do the right thing.