How does this work? You (sort of) graduate college in 2014 at some no name University and by 2018 you are hired as the Vice President of Information Technology at Chesapeake? This place is straight out of Dilbert. #itisn’tfunnywhenit’sreal.
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JP is protected. DL will go down with the ship protecting him and other cronies. It’s too bad but this will wind up in the “tried it” closet with the “Factory” and 4DX. If you are shiney and under 35, you are a JP fav.
JP turning over IT to in inexperienced consultant will be his undoing. It’s really an indefensible move. Why isn’t the Board more engaged. They are getting paid well to prevent knucklehead acts like this.
Hopefully it's not the same consultants who 'launched' SAP
Have to mostly agree with the previous post. Based on the hiring I find it hard to believe that position was posted or interviewed for. It was created by the recently hired consultant co that is being paid high dollars to throw out these recommendations and digital transformation type buzzwords. Do you think the CIO or other IT director voluntarily “retired” all of a sudden? Notice how a “national search” will be conducted for the new EHS VP and the IT dept gets a new VP with virtually no industry experience straight out of animal house. The executive team doesn’t run the company anymore; the consulatants do. lmfao, what a joke!
Those are the people leading your company and department now. Sad to say but soon most all your jobs will be sent overseas.
R.I.P. IT.
I love the last posters comments. Sounds on point. Across the company as a whole. For example it must be weird for field personnel to be reporting to supers who have no real field production experience.
Actually don't think this one will be deleted. The other thread on the same topic was deleted because they used a fake name that rhymed with this person's actual name. What I find puzzling about this is that the person that is subject of this topic has no industry experience. Must be weird for the senior managers with decades or more experience to be reporting to somebody who doesn't have industry knowledge, contacts, or experience. I'd like to know... was this job posted? If so, you'd think that a upper senior level job would require SOME industry experience? Who applied for this job? Was the board involved in the decision? And if not... is this person's placement in this role a violation of some company policy? IMHO, it appears there is a conflict of interest. Appearances of conflict of interest typically mean... there's a conflict of interest. I hope this person does well for the sake of the tattered remains of our company's once great IT department, but.... I have a feeling it may not turn out well. Seems that IT is losing people at an unsustainable rate. A near death sentence for the company's ambitious and complex technological goals. However, like most "projects" & "initiatives", I have a feeling we'll start with a bang, tells lies about the project in Townhalls, people will resign and get laid off, and then nobody will be there to support or progress the project, and then it will just fade away without a peep.
I will give you a staff promotion.
On top of all the best technical ppl 26-30 are leaving because they can't even get a staff promotion
This thread will be deleted in 5-4-3-2..................
Because management doesn't understand technology they believe anything they hear if the person says it with enough buzz words.