The workload is really huge and i have to find ways to cope with it. I am under tremendous stress and I am thinking of leaving as soon as I get a better offer.
Maybe this overload is just a way for Lenovo to get rid of long-term employees? But do they really think they can just hire some inexperienced employee to take my place after I leave?
"Ask yourself this question: Will Lenovo care about you if you die or have to take a 6-month LOA because of medical issues? Nope! They would replace you in a few days and not bat an eye."
Yup. Pretty much like this --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acp-_B7jl40
Better is subjective. Anything is better than someplace that will ki-l you. I took a "pay cut" going to my new employer. However, the benefits far outweigh the loss in pay. Better 401k match, pension, much cheaper health option (free for me, $50 per family member capped at $150, out of pocket max is $2,000pp capped at $5,000). I make up far more in benefits. My take home pay is almost the same with the cheaper and much better insurance.
Ask yourself this question: Will Lenovo care about you if you die or have to take a 6-month LOA because of medical issues? Nope! They would replace you in a few days and not bat an eye.
The place sucks.
When you complain about the do nothing favorite, you’re the first one layed off when the time comes. It happened to me.
"Lenovo isn't for good, hard-working, smart people. It's for con-artists, bullsh!tters, hucksters, and snake-oil salesmen."
I'll add that these favorites know full well they are getting away with their behavior and that management does not care about it.
My manager told all of us to be at our desks/ cubicles no later than 9:00AM. One favorite shows up no sooner than 10:00AM. So guess what time the manager comes around to check on us? Yup, 10:00AM!
The favorite watches streaming golf tournaments on his PC, but management does not care; the director even stops by and asks the favorite who's in the lead.
Sorry but that’s just corporate life.. the ones that can talk and kiss a-s are the ones that get promoted and are seen in a shinning light.
Why dont you challenge the "favorits", why not ask the person surfing the web, "what are you doing while I am working". Do you highlight it to your manager ? What are you afraid of ?
I did just that with one of the favorites. I asked him what he was doing and said he was meeting with another co-worker on a quick-turnaround project, but really wasn't doing anything and sitting idle half the day. When I talked to my manager about this, he balked, saying this employee was very busy. I told the manager, "No, he's not. He even said the more senior employee that he was paired up with was doing most of the work, and that he's only spending 6 hours at work not doing much, while I'm spending at least 10 hours working every day on all my tasks." The manager became upset at this and basically told me to shut up because I didn't know what I was talking about and that the favorite was, again, very busy.
Fast-forward to promotion time, and the favorite gets bumped up a band for just having a loud mouth and being opinionated, but brings nothing awesome to the table. He wasn't incompetent, but he definitely wasn't excellent. My workload was still huge and I barely got a cost-of-living merit increase.
Managers don't care. Lenovo doesn't care. The culture is garbage and rewards the wrong people. If you're a hard worker producing quality work, you get -- more work and ignored.
Why dont you challenge the "favorits", why not ask the person surfing the web, "what are you doing while I am working". Do you highlight it to your manager ? What are you afraid of ?
"Managerial favorites that spend more time self-promoting will win over you because Lenovo values 'visibility' over people that roll up their sleeves to get the job done without having to draw undue attention to themselves."
This is true in my experience. The favorites of the managers do not necessarily do the best job nor the most work, but they get all of the pay raises to the next band and when a new job opening appears, the favorites get that job. The managers and directors love their favorites and often blatantly give them nice gifts or "look the other way" if the favorites commit some violation. I saw a favorite spend roughly 75% of his day surfing the web; even others sitting near him asked me, "What is he getting paid to do?". Management didn't care and they had the statistical numbers of how much each person contributed to the team.
The same happened to me - this is just par for the Lenovo course. They will keep piling it on until you complain. You will do excellent work in 90%+ of your workload, but the only thing that will be pointed out are your mistakes.
Managerial favorites that spend more time self-promoting will win over you because Lenovo values 'visibility' over people that roll up their sleeves to get the job done without having to draw undue attention to themselves.
Lenovo isn't for good, hard-working, smart people. It's for con-artists, bullsh!tters, hucksters, and snake-oil salesmen.
Get out now.