Too many people I work with seem utterly miserable lately. I'm not one of them. Other than the fear of layoffs, I like my job and the people I work with, including my manager. Pay might not be the best but it's not the worse either and I prefer staying somewhere with normal company culture than leaving for someplace that'll pay me more but also make my life a living he-l. I'd like to understand what's making people so unhappy here, since I can't see it?
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I too am in an engineering role at legacy CommScope and I agree with the last post. I have a great manager and the team I work in is experienced and collaborative. The environment now after the recent layoffs has made the company a tough place to work. This of course, has been driven by the overall company financial performance which has been dismal now for three years. Expansion into risky China continues. We either have to increase sales a lot, raise prices or cut fixed expenses like employees to cope with rising material prices and supply chain headaches and servicing 10b in dept from the last acquisition. Everyone is now waiting for the next shoe to drop. The next wave I feel will be people leaving by choice. Shame, as it was a good place to work.
I'm in an engineering position within legacy CommScope. I have amazing coworkers, and I like my manager. I'm miserable at CommScope. Years of constant layoffs, often eliminating entire functional groups or reducing a group down to one or two people, has made it increasingly difficult to get my job done. I'm not only doing the role I was hired to do, but also multiple other functions that I not only do not want to do but also have no idea how to do well. And while I have received no training, it wouldn't matter of I had because no amount of training can replace decades of experience. And yes the salary and benefits are ok. CommScope does a lot of research to ensure that they're just average with those. But the constant uncertainty, lack of job security, and lack of communication from upper management take a large toll on everyone.
Mingle sucks. What a hack. Should be fired for being in here pulling the childish nonesense.
Ok I'll bite. And i'll give you the technology perspective. Accounting, HR, marketing, and other areas these all may not apply. Let's see:
Lower than market value pay
Cr---y raises
Subpar and expensive medical benefits
Long hours including evening and weekends calling/emailing/chatting with China/India
Long hours with no thank you, compensation, or even comp time offered
Worthless RSUs
Managers/Directors/Senior DIrectors who do nothing but micromanage
Managers/Directors/Senior Directors who treat you like dirt and take credit for all the hard work
Other departments heads throwing QA and/or tech support under the bus when field issues found
Managers being a good old boys club and band together to force out people they don't like
Shall I go on?
Good speech you mingleberry
I truly hope this is just one of the Mingle-berries posting on their own. If this was officially sanctioned, HR is even more clueless than I thought.
Oh good grief. I take it that a) you don't work in technology and b) you don't work for legacy Arris. Because I work in HN and I don't know one person who is currently happy in their job. Not one. In fact, we have about 1 or 2 people resigning every week.
Nice try Mingle!