If one more person walks out or gets cut, we’re done for. How am I supposed to explain to some clueless manager who only got the job by playing office politics that the work just won’t get done? It’s beyond frustrating when the people making decisions have zero idea what we actually do. We can’t afford to lose anyone else.
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So as a manager level GL29 why do you exist if you cant do anything?
@a6 the team won't really dissolve from upset management lens as it gets replaced by an offshore resource, one person at a time. My team is 70% offshore. And of the onshore it's 50% contractors. So it's only 15% US based FTEs.
I am a manager. I guarantee you, I didn't play office politics to get my position. For the record, managers have no role at all in who is getting RIFed. I am as frustrated as others that good people are being let go for cheaper, less qualified offshore individuals (in my case, it's the Philippines). I have two teams functioning on bare basics. I am doing the same tasks they're doing to keep our heads above water. I have not been included, nor have counterparts on my team, in any discussions on who to let go. These decisions are made by GL30+, then GL29 (associate directors) are informed, then we're informed and have to do the dirty work. I was told one day before I had to lay off 2 people. It's brutal, painful and soul suc
Just look for the new GIF with the finger and send it. It’s self explanatory
That is what happened to my department, no one knows what they are doing because they were from a different department, manager included. Work never done and no one seem to care.
The usual plan is to spin up a new team on the other side of the globe a month after the original team was eliminated. If something breaks oh well. UHG is not afraid of any union since never going to happen. Just try and the offshoring will accelerate
Everyone is replaceable. Even if it is with a poor english speaking individual with a bad connection and is on the opposite side of the clock. Stupid is what stupid does - the only thing UHG is afraid of is a UNION
100%! We were already seriously struggling. People with critical knowledge were let go. I feel bad for my colleagues that are left trying to do the work of multiple people.
Ive been on war rooms where the application breaking had no one available to join and we had to slowly climb the chain until a senior VPs were on the call looping in old colleagues who pulled down the code and debugged. Wasnt pretty, but youd be shocked to know the people who made these cost cutting calls never faced a consequence for it.
I've always been curious.. what happens if a team loses everyone? Does it just dissolve? If that team was a critical part of another team's application, then obviously that team would be in trouble too.