I don’t blame the pandemic, it’s the managers. It seems to me that people in management change job roles frequently to cover incompetence. This happened before Covid too but it wasn’t nearly as obvious. The amount of money this company spends on products that never see market or that launch, but are not properly supported and developed is insane. That last layoff was a way of targeting difficult”personalities” by shifting blame from the managers to the workers who where all doing the jobs asked of them. The fact that some teams have so little direction or oversight makes it really hard to take it all seriously anymore. Am I alone in feeling this way? I miss loving my job :(
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There’s strong nepotism in ResMed’s DNA. If you are lucky enough to be one of the protected who is considered family especially if you are from Sydney or a buddy of an executive from another company then you will be fine! You will get promoted easily without any experience in your role just because you are friends with the right people or “grew” up together since uni. You will be successful despite being egotistical and treating others with disrespect and with a department who doesn’t respect you. But you don’t care because you like to flaunt your power and show how close you are with the executives. Good luck out there to those unprotected.
During my time at ResMed, I know of a couple of people ( before the layoffs) who were let go soon after they complained to HR about their managers. I do not know if this was common or not. Those managers are still there and were not affected by the layoffs. The stated measure for determining who to layoff was criticality. Who really knows unless you were in the room making the decisions on who to lay off. We can speculate as to what unstated factors influenced the decision on who to layoff. ResMed from 2022 to 2023 hired around 22 percent more people and now in 2023 they had to layoff- so over hiring was probably an issue that led to this.
Performance review? Our team hasn't had one for years. I never heard of a company that do them for all employees.
My own managers famous phrase is “we do very different jobs” which is her way of telling me not to ask for help with anything. She can’t do the job we do yet she is the one grading me on my performance? Seems strange to me.