Our manager explained to his team leads that the only reason he still has a job is the director knows if he removed the manager he will have to manage the team leads and direct reports. The manager also shared that he owes management a breakdown of his reports workloads and knowledge transfer requirements for those workloads to overseas teams.
“The way I see it is if you want a rainbow you gotta put up with the rain” - Dolly Parton
@mx I have observed this pattern in my area repeatedly during the last three rounds of layoffs: we eliminated groups in areas deemed redundant—10 people in one unit, yet one or two remained. While value and relocating entire teams offshore is achieved; somehow one or two HCL team members survive when others do not. The one or two that remain are transition into newly established roles with expanded responsibilities.
To those saying work hard and you will be kept on. The management team have already been told there is cuts again in August. We do not know the areas of rhe business yet. We will be told if it is our units and given a value to save. Again a value. So we have to look at this and find a way to make happen. Regardless of how good you are I cam move a whole team offshore and save the majority of that value and so it becomes an easy choice. This is how they move out HCL. No loyalty just value.
Lame. Why you posting to yourself?
@f3 reminds me of two great quotes I read the other day:
When asked for a piece of career advice at a conference, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang replied, “Dedicate yourself to learning all the time, doing the best possible work you can, and leave everything on the field. I’m not at all ambitious. I don’t aspire to do more. I aspire to do better at what I’m currently doing.”
As Steve Martin once said, “Be so good they can’t ignore you.”
I don’t know why people entertain half of the m@ronic posts on this site anymore . The majority of posters can barely spell their name or form a coherent thought. Just a bunch of bored whiners and crybabies.
@ew advice don’t compare your pay and benefits to sr leadership and c suite. I stead figure out how to improve yourself for whatever employer or industry you work in and you will find that you will be rewarded. It may require changing employers once you have new skills and abilities because your current employer won’t recognize your new and improved self. But it’s all on you to improve yourself not your employer to just give you unearned benefits.
@ew I hope you recognize your own form of entitlement in saying we do the day to day work so we automatically desire raises.
ah yes years of no raises for people who do the work to keep the lights on, they have no value. C and Sr levels on the other hand have done wonders and deserved all their massive comp and most haven't all left in shame. yup thats the ticket.
@e9 The other thing I would point out is that if you read this post.. it probably should be read as a warning sign to fellow co-workers concerning the mindset of workloads and the staff completing the workload. Overs sea staffs in some incidents are way more capable than they have historically been treated and in times like we are in now.. this becomes more transparent to leadership.
What some people don’t like hearing and attack is that if you help your employer be successful that the employer will treat you different than others - this is not entailment this how the real world works at any employer. This isn’t entitlement this is just the way the world works.. the more value you bring to the table by the people judging value the more they reward you for that value. You may disagree wit the value but most likely if your protesting your not in leadership or influencing leadership on what they consider value.
I would bet that majority of the people on this site make above average salary for the community they live in. Some of the discussions and frustrations on this site toward oversea employees is based in a very much entitlement viewpoint.
@e9 That tone. You are clearly XRX management. Lexmark mamagers sound more like actual people.
@ba I’d say you get the respect equal to what you give. The majority posting nonsense on this site have zero respect for their team members, their managers or the company that pays their mortgage.
It’s rather disgusting seeing the entitlement and attitudes.
@b0 There is something called having morals, living an ethical life and treating others with respect. Hiring, keeping and having those around you with these qualifications should be the lowest bar for employees. College degrees are important and in some fields they are necessary but I would first make sure those around me personally and at work have the first attributes I listed.
Take it to the Facebook cesspool
Why does anybody think it’s ok to post whatever random ret@rded thought they have in their head on this site? This shouldn’t be a catch-all site for nonsensical spewing. The majority of you never graduated college and it shows.