We had an exec make this point, right... So, what do we think?
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Absolutely.
MBA schools don’t teach anything like offshoring is good, be a traitor to your country, stab fellow employees in the back, and change jobs every two or three years before your actions catch up to you.
You likely have a useless BA in Sociology or Feelings.
People who take advantage of other people will always do that though. Being unethical is a personality trait, not a B School curriculum.
This might be true for those who are overly-literal, and who only see the world in absolutes. Dichotomous thinking is a symptom of many personality disorders, so hopefully any executive/employee with such a limited capacity to see the world as more nuanced and complex than this is on the short list.
An old saying in business. To determine if you are replaceable or not, answer the following question. "If you never come back, will the company close their doors for good"? If the answer is yes, that they will close for good, then you are not replaceable.
This is all of IT.
"But I see a number of skeleton-crew situations right now where if a single person leaves, a whole process will break. If you're going to treat the staff as consumables you better have plenty on hand for when the current batch runs out." @1ahr+1hP59T7q
Any given individual in isolation, sure.
But I see a number of skeleton-crew situations right now where if a single person leaves, a whole process will break. If you're going to treat the staff as consumables you better have plenty on hand for when the current batch runs out.
That’s the problem with Corporate America. They think that about their employees and don’t care if it’s not true because they’ll be gone by then.
MBA school teaches that offshoring is good, be a traitor to your country, stab fellow employees in the back, and change jobs every two or three years before your actions catch up to you.
Same person also said Java Engineers are not special
True. Absolutely true
This attitude is exactly where Charlie & Co have done the most damage at Wells Fargo. Leaders can’t stack-rank, threaten, cost-cut, over-work and offshore this bank into becoming a successful organization. Culture is such a critical piece to building a thriving team.
My experience with most employees is:
Treat them with respect and appreciation, like they make a difference- they will go to the ends of the earth for you.
Treat them like they are a number, like they are easily replaceable - you’ll be lucky to get 10% of their potential from them.
Compare the exponential potential of 250,000 inspired and valued employees working together as a team; vs the reduced effort of 250,000 under appreciated people trying to survive a toxic every-man-for-himself culture.
This company is in trouble.
True.
Everyone is replaceable because the message is being delivered loud and clear: Employees exist to pad the resume of their chain of command to job-hop to the next pay raise. If you can't help them accomplish that, why are you here?
No, H1 visa jobs are usually are pretty secure, because if he/she leaves, they have to find another H1 worker from the same country to fill it.
So a group of workers from China usually will find a replacement from China. And so on...
After H1 workers, I don't know if there are more secure jobs other than C-suite.
This company has sucked since he left
Of course everyone is replaceable. Just ask John Stumpf.
In an abstract sense, sure, but that doesn't mean the replacement won't be absolutely horrible at their job and not do it nearly as well as "the guy that's replaceable".
Yes, all are cogs in a wheel. Those with no experience or talent, stresses the other parts of the wheel. Most management treats their employees that way.
We should, at the very least, aim for replacing with better.
Much of our Board has been replaced. And yet we still have a group of sluggish do- nothings who have systemically failed to ask appropriate questions, properly assess our CEO’s performance, ensure adequate operating and risk controls, and have yet to re-establish trust in the bank.
And then there’s our CEO…
At Wells Fargo, it appears we pay up for less talent when we start replacing people. And they are taking us nowhere fast.
All replaceable but who wants to come here?
It takes forever to train a resource. I have 8 direct reports, I would not want to replace a single one.
Look at Apple without Steve Jobs. Not quite the same but companies will move on regardless.
yes they are but they arent the same...
Truth, some just take more effort to replace.