Years ago, my first day working at Cargill, my manager, I'll call her Ellie for the time being, requested an almost impossible task at 3pm, to be done, completed and on her desk by 7am. I stayed up all night working on this request, brought the results to her office, at 645am for a quick discussion, she told be to come back to her office at 7am, anytime prior is her time. True story, I walked out of her office crying . That wasn't a great experience,
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What I find bizarre that is unique to Cargill is 2 things: 1. LT agrees one thing and does something else or forgets what the agreement is and problems remain 2) No one REALLY listens especially when on teams or group calls there’s a culture of lots of messages and comments and replying in real time to their favourites comments or people it really derails the discussion. As you can see the points are interrelated as problem
1 is due to not really listening and just making noise. People out of depth
The engagement survey was a joke. Hard to interpret questions which I guess was deliberate. I also don’t believe it’s anonymous so aborted it. Such survey should be given more importance and be anonymous as should 360 degree feedback but no such measures for Cargill leader. Most of them focus on playing the game and clocking up the years of service.
Engagement scores for managers and above? Well that a joke, like they don't who you are, you peel it down to your job grade, how many on your team, years with Cargill, I could go on and on. If you are honest on one of these unethical surveys, be prepared to lose your job.
DEI policies is ruining companies. Many incompetent leaders chosen solely for their gender/race.
Generally females are naturally insecure and poor leaders. They stress the team, they don't know how to be meritocratic, they are emotional and they promote based on personal preference and not skills. They can also be extremely rude and vindictive.
Let that sink in.
And I was told by female HR Manager, I'll call her Kerry D, that if you want a good raise, be sure to show your VP, of course a male at the time, lots of cleavage, high boots, over the knee are best, short skirts and high heels. Don't know we got through it but we did and Kerry D is still an Hr Manager at Cargill..
Managing upwards is part of the culture and a huge problem. There's a particular manager in supply chain in CCNA who is notorious for throwing his people under the bus for problems outside of their control while taking credit for anything positive.
I still suffer from PTSD, I finally left the company, but this terrible manager is still there. And age discrimination is alive a well. Too managers without any direct reports, I remember listening to one of those managers spend 2 weeks on the phone planning her wedding , while we all struggled to keep up with high workloads. As far as age discrimination, every week, during a worthless meeting, my Manager, who I will call Conniester, asked be when I was going to retire, I wasn't even 60 at the time and we were the same age. We were expecting to work, days, evenings, weekends, sick days and holidays. While Senior Managers did nothing..
Global Communications is the same. My boss manages upwards and only cares about his image. He actually got good engagement scores as he leaves people at it, partly, but also partly because people try to be on his side. I didn’t complete it but I heard my boss performed best out of the rest. Talk about the best of a bad bunch.
The NA marketing leader is the same - i am on her team and still dont understand how they picked someone so incompetent when we had a few much better leaders to choose from. She is good upward managing and nothing else. Makes me sick just thinking about it and what is going to happen to our function with no clarity or real guidance.
What a loser she is...
My boss is no expert in the area they lead, they just push the team hard to then showcase the work to their superiors. They say they survived many layoffs and climbed the grease y ladder. Makes no effort in personal relationships as long as they achieve the aforementioned they leave you be. Not experienced this before as had leaders who were very involved and much more passionate. It has made me think!
Had a similar experience, only my boss took all the credit and later spoke to me like a child who pooped in the potty for the first time. Cargill needs to look VERY hard at who they put in leadership positions. Most do not know how to lead and only know how to play politics and kiss corporate a-s.
Corrupt company, I might write a book someday.