We’re the ragtag leftovers from the last round of layoffs, missing key roles, barely functioning as a team. Some people are fantastic, others are deadweight. Our manager is awful at distributing workload, and clearly doesn’t care. They have no clue about our actual skills and don’t even try to engage the ones coasting. Everything falls on those who know what they’re doing. We’re just mules propping up their image while they protect their own face. The resentment and exhaustion are peaking. Why is it so hard to find managers who can actually deal with real team dynamics? They always seem to come in the same mold - little dictators with zero interest in capacity, balance, or morale.
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Sounds like OP could be talking about any number of companies.
Verizon is the best Indian company in the market today. You all should be happy to work there surrounded by “yes men” all too happy to just drink the kool-aid and cash the check. Verizon employees are not paid to produce, they are paid to comply.
Join me in the crew of disengaged malingerers! Things here are awful and getting worse by the day. But there is some measure of satisfaction to look back on the time and resources I wasted, with very limited productivity.
There's always room for you, so hop on the bus and throw your concerns away! Hakuna Matada all day, every day.
If you have lingering doubts, remember how much executive leadership cares about us and match that energy.
Diamonds under pressure? That’s adorable. From where I’m sitting in retirement, most of those ‘diamonds’ were just cheap glass — brittle, overworked, and easily replaced when they shattered. Keep telling yourself you’re a gem, champ… leadership loves a shiny distraction.
Sounds like where I used to work, so when I saw the writing on the wall and the next VSP came — I got the Heck outta there ….. too many people afraid to speak their mind on the Pulse Survey for fear of being singled out and getting a Target placed on their own back. There are only two modes in Verizon: overwhelmed with an unmanageable workload or getting RIF’d on the next layoff. No in Between.
"Ah, the resilient survivors, the post-apocalyptic A-team of corporate life. You’ve been hand-selected by fate (and voluntary separation packages) to carry the company’s banner through the wasteland. Remember, diamonds are made under pressure… and so is burnout. But chin up, every overloaded mule dreams of becoming a show pony someday."