do we still have ll6's with zero reports?
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When I was SIRP'd from Model e last August, it was standard practice to have LL6s without direct reports. It was one of the outputs of the previous Smart Redesign.
What a great success Project Conway has been.
Sneaky for sure. Observing the LL6 on the friends and family plan have double the reports on paper, while the working LL6 have a small number (or zero) reports on paper. However, everyone goes to the working LL6 for planning and direction. The game appears to be to protect the LL6 that are on the friends and family plan when the next layoff comes. Between this game and the game of flagging friends and family as HTHD, one becomes thoroughly disgusted with management.
From what I’ve seen, realigning LL6s so that they have no direct reports was a sneaky way of demoting people, but without coming for their salary /benefits, as would happen if you were red circled. Even though an LL6 might get some GSRs out of the pool of resources, many times these GSRs don’t respect the LL6 because they aren’t direct reports. I also believe that many of the more competent LL6s lost their GSRs and are working to do both their supervisor job and the GSR job, because lots of people were shuffled into jobs they have no idea how to do. It’s also interesting how many incompetent LL6s on the friends and family plan were promoted. It’s messed up, for sure.
I'm an LL6 with no direct reports. There are 21 of us with the same job title, all with no direct reports.
Conway just reorged again. Went from 5 PMTs to a dozen SITs.
For those that have enough headcount, they will pick one or two LL6s to house the GSRs and have the others as 'individual contributors'. We even distribute some of the GSRs to LL5s and LL6s to LL4s to make sure we meet the quota. It just makes our administrative work more difficult.
If draining and demoralizing company technical expertise, having horrendous new product launches, doing cost save actions that cause recalls, and never ending warranty claims is an identifier, then conway (and DEI and SRD) was a total success.
Project Conway was misnamed. It should have been called Project Dilbert.
This is a two-part question. Short & long term. Short term all I see is CAOS and very low morale. Trust is gone. Confidence in the management is gone. Long Term well that will be past 5 years. What will BF &JF Legacy be?
If it is anything like the Train Station, we are in trouble.
We have 4 LL6 without direct reports under LL5. They are purported to be tech spec, but if they have any technical skills they are very well hidden. The true tech spec either resigned or were SRD. Every single SRD LL6 position were back filled with a promotion of a someone on the friends and family plan.
In my group there are LL6s with 0 direct reports officially on paper. Many of those are Tech Specs of high value pigeon holed into their role. But in reality some of the GSRs asigned to other LL6s still work for them just like before.
I'm hearing of me more and more LL6 individual contributors too.
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