Where are the decent leaders?

It's clear to me that as you progress through the company, you become corrupted. It seems to start with people promoted into staff vp and then once they make it to vp, their soul expires. It gets replaced by pure ego and competition.

I've witnessed many over the years get promoted and after that following year's bonus check, they're suddenly corporate shills. At vp, you get all kinds stupid benefits including a car allowance. The company wants to ensure you look the part.

Maybe that's the friggin problem. We've got a ton of people who look the part. Few who act the part. And those who do are either pushed out or get indoctrinated to maintain their poshy lifestyle.

I'll take a leader in pj's with a good attitude over a D in an Armani suit who drove his/her/their tesla to work so everyone could see them.

Ego and greedy have ruined this brand. Good marketing will never compensate for the sh--e pile. You can light fireworks from a dumpster but at the end of the day, it's still a dumpster.

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All the decent leaders are in AI team.

I have decent leaders in my org for the first time in several years. They do actually work. They do actually walk the talk. BUT, they do compromise with people who do not because their leaders expect them to. It starts at the top. Grassroots movements and leaders fail in corporations because there's too many clutching their pearls and running things with their own agendas. Money related, whether their income or keeping their admin expense higher than their peers.

That is exactly why RTO happened @rbr+1v608kcf

These dbags weren’t getting the ego pump they thought they deserved sitting in their offices without anyone sitting in cubes.
Preferred parking doesn’t matter when the parking lot is empty.
The worst part was their outrageously id--tic “skits” that they would force into every conference call.
“Oh look, Ghandhi just walked into my office and we solved world hunger”.
When COVID hit, we turned our homes into offices and worked our butts off.
When this recession gets worse, will they rally around the employees or rif us to save their preferred parking. Two more new VP’s announced today must mean there will be 200 FTE’s getting cut.

I was a decent leader. I retired last year on my own terms. Like me, a lot of good managers just get fed up with the constant backstabbing and resource starvation, inability to promote good team members, lack of leadership support, etc.

There is a staff vp in FHPS that has grown through the ranks and has become utterly awful. This person became an insipid, intolerable wind bag. So this is absolutely true.

The good ones are all burnt out from trying to make the best of it and show up each day to a place that defies their moral compass.

I have see it start at the Manager 1 level. Unpleasant Personality changes and most that I have known end up demoted, RIFD, leave or Fired.

It must be the emperors new clothes in indy, ny, and atl. I think that's a lot of the reason RTO happened. There was no one to gawk at execs and feed their egos.

Maybe one day, if I try hard enough, someone will see that the light in eyes can be dimmed for a paltry 50k more. Chump change to the ELT. Can't wait to get my call to the majors.

I’m so grateful to be mostly remote after reading this. If I had to witness that sh-t I think I’d vomit all over the D’s Tesla.

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