We have so many people whose whole job is collecting updates from those of us who do the work and presenting them somewhere else. They don't add anything. They don't do anything. They just take the work, repackage it, and hand it up. Cut them all and nothing would change except maybe things would move faster.
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If you're looking at OpenText employee trends, ignore the averages. The story is in the extremes: management is protecting high-performing employees (with networking links/ relationships to upper management) while automating or cutting the traditional roles (people invisible to upper management). But those high-performing employees are expected to do more and more with management telling them I believe in you, you are critical to the success of this company!!! I don’t fault managers since is this is all they can do. I fault the ELT that has put this culture in place.
@k7 Similar 'stack approval' BS is required from the engineering side as well. Process > progress.
@a8 the approval process is an absolute joke. Just let the people who know what they are doing push the quotes out and done. That will never happen. These leaders want to be relevant.
@OP 100 percent agreed. When I started at OT I was two from ceo. And at my last count 5 from ceo with same role over five years later. Each up line asking me about a deal. Or how I sent an email or whatever. So exhausting with zero recognition nor reward. Then they changed my teams comp plan. I quit at that point. Terrible organization. I would never work there again.
Really who want to stay in OT ?
Here in IT, Eng. have all in-house built softwares, which are least used else where. So the skills we build here, least preferred.
We are not google or mircosoft or oracle. If EVP thinks so, make product division enriched and hire visionaries. Dont just pick random people, who spent whole life pleasing EVPs.
There is a never ending stream of useless processes and people that engineering has to get approvals from. No wonder innovation is dead here.
@OP spot on. But it's the classic playbook here, sacrifice the people actually have the experience and do work, to protect the repackagers who make PPT. Rumor has it that this year is going to be a bloodbath. Instead of cutting the bloat or IT PMO collectors, the leadership will cut into the bone of the actual execution teams. While the VPs and Directors of nothing get to stay and streamline the wreckage.
@a8 Planned obsolescence isn't just for appliances and computers. It's for people, too.
Dude most times there are 3+ people/departments who have to approve quotes and sometimes reject them as they don’t understand the products they have the authority over.
If you have to wait days to get an approved quote to customers is it any surprise they hate dealing with us?
Even if you rightsize the company, when the people left are useless due to previous layoffs and have zero product and technological expertise how can it survive?
@a3 yeah, they are hiring Director IT Audit
@OP are you talking about Chantel? and many IT VPs and PMO directors. They don’t have any other work than doing that. I think Aviator can do better job than them.