Or travel, or bonuses, or proper staffing? Make it make sense.
11 replies (most recent on top)
The employees do not matter. If you live or die. This company could not care less about you.
I think the titles are a reflection of their compensation and that is why they have staff VPs and sr directors reporting to staff VPs and sr directors
It’s a joke here
Such a top heavy company with nothing to show for it. I was looking at some of the org charts and it really pathetic. You can only riff so many people and eventually they will riff themselves right out of a job. This is after we already demoted a ton of VPs. How many VPs does it take to to tell someone how to sc--w in a lightbulb?
Managers become Sr Managers
Sr Managers become Directors
Directors become Sr Directors
Sr Directors become Staff VPs
Staff VPs are now VPs
AND some teams have Sr. Director reporting to a Sr. Director or some teams have no Manager or Sr. Manager, they are straight up led by Director or Sr. Director. Some Directors or Sr. Directors have no managers under them. Instead, they just have 6-7 ICs under them instead of 5-6 Managers. Some Directors or Managers have less than 5-6 people or ICs under them. Title changes at mid managerial levels here are a joke. What a colossal waste of money on just talking heads.
If I was the CEO, I would consolidate mid-managerial layers and hire more, sharper on-shore IC staff and create more internal levels for each IC title with adequate higher compensation and RSUs (without having to dole them meaningless Inflated titles and causing top heavy structure). Instead of 7x7, I would do 7x12. Let’s face it. Most Managers and up here are clueless, especially IT, and mostly just talk and do nothing.
Directors become Sr Directors
Sr Directors become Staff VPs
Staff VPs are now VPs
People at the top are all growing and they have budgets for such things
Worker bees at the lower level are at the same level since years with no good bonus and no raises and rarely any growth
Such a disgrace
You know Gail and her crew will collect a hefty bonus. My manager told us in a team meeting this week that our bonuses this year would be about 1/4 of what they gave us in the past and that some people were going to be disappointed. The lower on the totem pole, the less you receive... even if you were a top performer. Yet, they expect us to keep "doing more with less". With all the federal employees looking for jobs, they know we won't just leave. It's hard to care. I used to care.
Rainy day savings should have happened during Covid. Insurance companies made a fortune, but eerily never mention. That stack of cash is enough to weather this storm, but they took it instead.
I'm sure greed has a big role in this but has anyone stopped to consider that it could also be the company saving for a 'rainy day'? With tariffs and a lot of uncertainty about the economy over the next few years, they may be trying to play the cards accordingly. But if this is the case, I do agree that it's unfair and selfish to do so with our money and not theirs.
Supposed poor earnings last year...expect less than half your usual AIP...bet theirs won't be affected...
I hope they crash and burn.
You can’t it’s greed and evilness.