We keep putting the wrong people in roles they can't handle, and it's dragging everyone down. The person in over their head suffers, and so does the team that has to pick up the slack. It shouldn’t take months to realize someone isn’t qualified. If we don’t start vetting people properly, nothing changes. This isn’t just bad luck, it’s avoidable.
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Hot garbage is the only way to describe our “management”
Love the mechanical fake empathy of the current crop of trash. Always fascinating to watch the “nice” ones in public turn into nasty little vermin in a conf room or their office. Am sure they have great home lives.
I was given a new assignment I didn’t ask for. I asked my manager why did they put me in an area where I have no training in. I knew they needed to reduce headcount and certain people needed shiny assignment. A lot of gaslighting went on during this time. A few of the people simply made my job he-l. Basically withheld information and backstab. Supervisors did not help. As soon as I was able to make progress, she colluded with her buddy and reassigned the work. Things started to fall apart because the work was not assigned to the right people with the skills. I could see that it was a no win situation so I got out. My only regret is not quitting sooner instead of wasting my time here.
I can tell you that there are greener pasture out there. There are companies where people work as a team. Where exemplary skills are valued. Make sure your skills are sharp and you never have to worry about work. Never put up with a toxic work environment even when they dangle money and a fancy meaningless title in front of you. Never stay for some made up noble cause because in the end they don’t care.
How about actual leaders who care about their teams instead of “managers” fug em
I have had three managers in Facilities when I used to work in Midland. The first one was old school, I can say the best of the three. After that, the deterioration of the Facilities started. The second one a egocentric guy with absolute non-knowledge of management. The last one, a mediocre person that can backstab any person from facilities.But, you know how the game is, the last one was promoted and now the person is manager in Houston.
Don’t forget our executives. Have never met such business inept and sociopathic hot garbage as that crowd, even after working at other majors. Stealing a living is about as kind a description of their contribution as is possible to use with those winners.
There were some bad supervisors/managers back in the 1970's and 1980's, but very few. Now it sounds like they're commonplace. Back then if they lacked job knowledge or were somewhat incompetent, at least they acted nice and would fight to support their people to make up for their other deficiencies.
Supervisors and managers are the worst. We don’t need them. They just make work for everyone that goes near them. Stay away. Far away
The popularity contest keeps a very incestuous behavior. I’m still seeing people sponsored by folks who are no longer here. Look at the La Quinto bandinto. He still has players in the whole pioneer fiasco.
The supervisor s and managers walk around with such arrogance. They know nothing of the science but act like they are the masters of everything. I have never worked with such low experience or intelligence bosses. I just smile act stupid and say otay boss. All the supervisors know is exxon breacracy and red tape. They really know how to make getting anything done a nightmare.
Exactly what is incentivized. Low quality execs who hang on for life changing comp and gradually believe after a career of back stabbing and avoiding all risk and responsibility, they’ve “earned” it. Not sure most of them started out as POS people, but in the end they all become exactly that, blinded to anything but their own money. Supervisors and managers who see the comp and the behaviors above them and they think this is their best shot, so they’ll crawl over anyone and anything to get there. Pretty gross, honestly.
To be fair, I think you have to give newbies a full year cycle of planning and budgeting and PDS to determine if they can do the job. Managing in EM is a whole different animal than the role they're coming from. But otherwise I agree with the OP. Disclaimer - I make a distinction between a leader and manager at EM. They are often not the same.
All our good managers and supervisors leave for better pastures and we are left with absolute trash. No one good ends up staying.