They add useless layers of management year after year. I swear sometimes it looks to me like a new managerial position keeps popping up like mushrooms out of the ground after a rainy day.
Meanwhile, they cut as much as they can on engineering and technical positions. Not just that. When the bad times come, engineers are first in line to be cut, while all the useless people in the managerial position get to stay. It is a heavily reversed and ill logic that continues to thrive year after year. If this is not a good enough signal to move on from this company, I don’t know what is
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@1xlg - and yet, here you are ... reading all of those "sad, sad" posts. That says something about you too, don't you think ?
Why are you so concerned with these minor psychological issues inflicting you when we have a severe tragedy taking place in our Anglo world? Y’all are sad, sad people posting about trivial matters during a time like this
"Meanwhile, they cut as much as they can on engineering and technical positions."...and as a consequence of this things keep blowing up in Baytown. There must be a correlation.
The end game is to have only managers.
With a bunch of fair paid contractors working for them and doing a fair job.
@thv Anyone 55+ who want to still work is so golden. If you have a needed skill set and not a d bag, it's awesome
The key is in the title ‘manager’. Manager, and not Leader. We have 10 Managers for every Leader. And quite often, the Leader isn’t even in a Manager role.
As the workers leave or are outsourced, the quality of work decreases. So rather than get more, better, embedded workers, EM thinks they can solve the issue with more management. Rather than actually fix the problem at the source, the company leaves it broke and manages the heck out of it.
Annuitant consultant - that's the ticket. Pension and benefits locked in, more monthly cash flow than now, nobody will sc--w with you. Company gets you off the books Great deal for 55+ set.
I agree with this post. But you have to realize one thing about corporate logic......There ain't any.
Don't forget all the new supervisors and managers being leveraged across our hugely increased contractor incumbents that have replaced the lost staff positions...
The way I see it, much can be attributed to misalignment between the directive of corporate HR to reduce workforce, versus the reality of the functions experiencing crippling attrition. The excessive promotion of people into “management” positions is likely based on attempts by functional management (up to and including Prez/VPs) to “grow” the remaining employees that they’d like to keep, but can’t otherwise incentivize within the current bounds of the system that is now a total HR black box. We’re now in a personnel death spiral.
People at EM loves to have lots of meetings...including useless large big group gatherings where people fly in from all over the places...managers fly in only to mingle with their own kinds and not talking to the worker bees....didn't managers see that it is very unproductive and yet they claimed that EM needs to be competitive vs competitors.. while they were spending 3-4 days with unproductive internal meetings...yuckss!!
Office Space Syndrome
I do share this view. At my area right now there are so many with overlapping responsibilities that everything seems to be a constant loop of meetings.