Example , just know It’s not what you know or how well you are at your job, it’s how well liked you are by management. Good luck everyone!
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It’s not who you know. It’s who you let take up skirt videos of employees. Sad.
@14f love Office Space
The retention incentive is only enough to keep me from outright quitting but the leaders thinks it’s enough to make me do what 3 would have done before the mess. I’m just going to have to downshift and take it easy. F them. It’s a “retention” incentive” not a, “put up with torture in the process.” So if things fail between now and then, as long as I don’t do anything egregious, I’m just going to let them fail. I’ve sounded alerts that what they are asking for won’t work. I’m done caring about them working now. I’ll just do the bare minimum.
It's a problem of motivation, all right? Now if I work my a-s off and crown castle lights a few extra nodes, I don't see another dime, so where's the motivation? And here's something else: I have eight different bosses right now.
So that means that when I make a mistake, I have eight different people coming by to tell me about it. That's my only real motivation is not to be hassled, that and the fear of losing my job. But you know, that will only make someone work just hard enough not to get fired.
@js everyone below emt so no changes will be made.
@jj which ones? There is no one on the “EMT” going to EQT that I’m aware of. CL is the only one on the EMT from network and he’s going to Zayo.
What’s crazy is all the EMT which have failed so hard will be executives at EQT.
That's the whole point. The leadership failures at Crown across the years are due to office politics taking hold. When you place a person that's average or has little to no experience in a position (but that you go golfing with or just have a good relationship with) over a person that is more qualified for the position, you get the poor company performance and decision making that we've had over the years. Ex: CL has mastered this and is entrenched too deep to leave unless it's his own decision at this point.
You have to play the game and finally get to a position that can hire people based on merit to see the positive momentum and company success. Those in leadership that hire their friends or people they like into positions that they don't belong in aren't leaving until there's a perceived advantage at another company that sees only their title and not their "success" that they've had at Crown...they've been playing the game better than you.
This isn’t just office politics it’s leadership failure. Office politics don’t explain repeatedly promoting unqualified, toxic leaders with a trail of broken teams and poor results. When incompetence and toxicity get rewarded and even expanded by new execs who ignore facts in favor of assumptions it’s no longer a game. It’s an organizational choice. And teams pay the price.
Example to study: VP of IT what’s their damage count on careers destroyed? Weren’t they allegedly fired?
This is how it works when you're at a larger company. It may not seem fair, but it's how office politics work. I used to think like you...I thought if I tried to be the best in my field and worked hard that I would climb the ladder. However, that only gets you to a certain point.
You have to play the game and be on the good side of the right people that can elevate your position. You have to go to those outings and social events even if you'd like to be home with the family or do your own thing after work. Management will hire someone average that they know and have a good relationship with over someone that might be able to do the job better but you never see at the "office cooler" getting to know people and building relationships. You either need to adapt, or leave and find a company that hires on merit.
People do business with others that they like and have a relationship with...be likeable and someone others want to be around and/or talk to. Do this, rise the ranks, and get to a position to where you can hire or promote someone based on merit. Otherwise get used to being an individual contributor and continue eating the shhh you're being shoveled.