In listening to the People Leader Call sifting through a myriad of charts and what Teradata needs to do…. My thought is that if I’m a middle aged white manager, I have no career path in this company even to get to a director level. The priority in finding non white non male. Am I mistaken with my takeaways?
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No one working at Teradata today has a career. You have a job with no future.
“ One can always identify the Americans here.”
Good that you can since you’re working for an American company.
HR came out in full force 😁.
My director got promoted into his current role nearly 3 years ago. He is middle aged white male. He worked extremely hard to get where he is and is now showing everyone what he is capable of. He just gets hands on and delivers. So if you are prepared to do the hard yards don't sit on your hands and complain, get out there and deliver everyday. He'll attest to the mantra that the only one responsible for your success is you.
One can always identify the Americans here.
To the OP: Stop looking for a scapegoat and accept reality.
You don’t have a career path to director at this company, because almost no one does here.
It’s not because you’re white and middle aged.
It’s because the opportunity for promotion isn’t here in a shrinking company. This place was 10,000+ in 2018 and is now 7,000-some salaried employees if you take the yammer members number shown on “the Forum - all company” at face value.
It’s because of circumstances like a department of 150+ salaried only having 4 real promotions in 4 years (only 2 of which were director level or above).
The times have changed in the last 2 decades. You drive your career. Not your employer.
You’re not rewarded in 2022 for your longevity and loyalty to any corporate American company.
If you don’t see the advancement opportunities here, then turn off the TV and stop doom scrolling, and start applying for jobs elsewhere.
Even take a week of vacation to focus that 40 hours on that job hunt exclusively if you need to, to get started. Invest a little bit of cash in a resume consultation and even some career coaching if you feel stuck.
You leaving the company sooner on your own terms might save someone (who actually wants to stay here) from a layoff next year.
Can’t wait for all you conservative aging snowflakes to realize some of our competitors and many/most desirable top tech companies in North America preach the same DEI / woke matters.
Times are changing. Might not hurt for you to open your mind and change, too, instead of buying into the FOX-news propaganda that “they’re going after the aging white American conservative male.”
To get rid of implicit bias, we have now moved into explicit bias and affirmative actions.
No problem with wokeness or DEI, but spending 90% of time in all meetings talking about it as if it will solve all the problems we have as a company makes most of us cringe.
We need all of us to wake up from the sleep of wokeness and get real work done.
Remove all DEI hires and promotes if they are only meant for filling up the quotas and not their technical/people skills.
Teradata Corporation uses racist DEI signaling to attempt to both please dogmatic Wall Street Investors, and obscure offshoring labor to India/Mexico.
Leave this dying, woke company now
And if you are a Christian, you are presumed to be s-xist, racist etc. All the usual insults. Assume your career prospects are dead.
I don't work there but the overall culture is a septic tank and the people who brought that about need to have scapegoats.
You hit the nail on the head. Flee now!