Thread regarding Enbridge Inc. layoffs

Love the responses here, some people got really triggered LOL

I was a manager with no degree at Enbridge. Crushed it. Left at the end of BOEF (and I was going to be promoted).

Ran circles around people with that prerequisite-degree-for-management mentality. It leans into issues with their attitude, work ethic and entitlement. Ironically it doesn’t allow them to be successful. People like me love it. Just desserts. Validates the notion that your degree does nothing for you pretty early on.

I only worked with a few that had that viewpoint that were good leaders, but they would have been good leaders anyway. They just put too much stock into their degree being attributed to their success

As soon as someone makes a statement like that, they typically lose any credibility.

"There are really those who became managers with no college degree. I know some in my area."

Not sure what your post means. Is that a problem? A lot of management positions get filled by brand new MBAs. In contrast, people who enter management without a college degree or diploma usually came in the long route, and proved themselves along the way.

Is your contention that the person with the degree is certain to be better at the job?

I can tell you this. In over 25 years at varying levels of the org, I cannot remember any time when disagreeing managers whipped out their education credentials in an "appeal to authority" (google the fallacy).

To the poster below me, a lot of the sh-t and bloat we're going through right now would not be as much of an issue if we had less people with college degrees in management positions, and simply decided to promote those with the most practical knowledge, experience, and actual skin-in-the-game. Instead a lot of management you see nowadays are people just looking to play hopscotch on the corporate ladder while simultaneously deliberately not trying to get settled in one team for too long.

There's too much emphasis in this company on "if you aren't moving along, there's something wrong". I beg to differ. Maybe, just maybe, if somebody is doing a good job at being a pipeliner for 20 years, you shouldn't be constantly up their a-s to get them to apply for technical/advisor roles if they don't want to do that. Change is good to a degree, and when the situation calls for it, but change for change's sake because of some stupid mantra your consultant fed to you can be disruptive or just straight up destructive.

There are really those who became managers with no college degree. I know some in my area.

Reading your post and opinion is the most cringy thing I have read.