Thoughts on a manager nominating a peer manager for a legend reward? Seems pretty gross to me when we consistently go above our jobs but can't get an exceeds rating and managers are giving their buddies a legend award for mediocrity and it's praised and encouraged yet they question and blame the employee for morale being in the trash. Rewards to the people pleasing yes corporate kiss as--s. Ba-f!
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Start working out that right hand and wrist and make sure your knee pads are all cleaned up and ready. Having some chapstick or lip gloss helps too. That's the best way to get a "Legends" nom, nom, nom, nomination.
This "legend" is a manager and was nominated by another peer manager in the same organization on a "sister team". The manager nominating this person had incentive since the "legend" he nominated has her team pushing his projects through quickly without too much hassle. Funny thing is later on these projects were not properly vetted and end up with a slew of risks and issues. Tell me again where is this documented that only their direct manager can nominate them? If that's documented then it looks like "leadership" doesnt follow their own rules. But who is surprised by that anymore?! This place has become so dirty and unethical.
It is a fact that a person can ONLY be nominated by their manager. Not peers.
The legends weren't exempt from layoffs, the current meme going around the company is "Legends today, laid off tomorrow"
You can call BS but it happened! Like someone could make up the gross ish happening here!? You see why everyone commenting is fired up at the nonsense? C'mon! Obviously it's being abused in certain areas and being given for all the wrong reasons. Thats why people are upset! Its favoritism at its finest. Its a reward for doing what you're told and playing the corporate game even when it's unethical. Its completely biased and perhaps a bribe to keep pushing certain things through that shouldn't be. Open your eyes to what is really going on here. The leaders at the bank have run EVERYTHING into the ground. I personally have never witnessed independent contributors winning the award, only mediocre management.
I call BS, a manager cannot have his buddy peer manager nominate them, it does not work that way!! Only a persons direct supervisor / manager can nominate someone. Staff cannot nominate friends or co workers. I would say 80% of winners are individual contributors, not higher up managers.
Yep. All you have to do to win the LOP is put a large $ in the nomination.
Never mind the MC appointed winners--apparently they all had 1 winner they could appoint--including the old CEO. No need to have proof or verify why someone deserved it--just bestowed upon them outside all normal channels--favoritism at its finest.
I work with someone who is a Legend. A well deserved and humble non- management. In the past I have seen a couple that were not.
A Legend - an extremely deserving front line worker - is part of the recent bloodbath in Seattle. Awkward and sad to say the least.
Since I’ve been here all I’ve ever seen is managers get Legends nominations no regular employees.
The reason the bank is struggling? It’s no mystery. Most of our EVPs are painfully mediocre, with little to no understanding of technology. They’ve carefully installed layers of loyal SVPs, another tier of mediocrity, who in turn have their own VPs lined up, all trained in the fine art of nodding yes.
Challenge your manager? Good luck. You’ll be swiftly reminded of your “place.” Think HR will help? Think again. They don’t solve problems, they bury them. I’ve yet to hear of a single case where HR stood up for the employee. Anyone who speaks up is quietly labeled “disgruntled,” sidelined, and eventually shown the door during the next round of layoffs.
But hey, let’s keep pretending it’s all about performance, right?
It is all part of the destructive culture which is a natural byproduct of poor leadership and the insecurity that permeates the leadership, it is all politics over performance, politics over production, recognizing mediocrity to allow the leadership to not be threatened by their extremely talented subordinates, that is wht the bank finds itself where it is today
The Legends award is a joke. Unless you can substantiate how you excelled with hard data, it’s nothing more than a d!ck su-king competition.
On my team I have peers that solicit people for those recognition e-cards. They makes darn sure that we all see those e-cards on our weekly calls. Sad shameless self promotion and it ends up in a promotion.