Alright y’all, it’s been about one year since we completed the Transformation. Do things feel different or same old s***? In my opinion, it was an enormous distraction and lots of work, with not much to show for it. We paid off some of our best people to leave. A lot of trust was shattered in the process and I’m betting people will be hesitant to stick around.
The “event” itself was a joke. Poorly planned and poorly executed (virtual layoffs really?). I knew we were f***’d when they asked us to summarize our careers in one paragraph. When they got to round 4, it became apparent they bit off more than they could chew and many many jobs were mysteriously closed (even though they claimed closed jobs would be rare). It also created a group of second class employees that weren’t important enough to have their position closed.
I think a reorg of ETC and PRC was overdue, but dragging all the BUs into it was insane.