I spoke to one of the new hires and that person rightly feels lost here. It is very different when you are trained by a person who is an expert at what they do, versus when you are trained by a mediocre employee who does not even know how to do his or her job well. Who will train new employees if all capable, experienced and skilled employees leave EM? This company doesn’t think much about it and perhaps it should.
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@1rsf - what the heck are you talking about ?
It is a shame the company continues to hire people with professional/engineering/science degrees. Outright fraud is what it is.
Current crop of supervision don’t bother to read your inventory of skills or take your career interest into consideration. The expectation is that people are interchangeable. Depth of experience is not valued at all. They just tell you who you ought to be when you grow up. Nobody will admit they don’t know something but keep up with the illusion otherwise they get whacked.
They have no idea what it takes to accomplish work, nor do they care. I refer you to TMTS as my case in point. Who legitimately thought that they could remove technical work to the other side of the world, away from operations? There is an insane amount of information transmitted informally, through mannerisms, facial expressions, overhearing discussions, and going to lunch with people. You can't overhear a conversation that you have a useful bit of info if all your communication has to be through the phone or computer, let alone 14 hours apart in normal work hours.
They are arrogantly naive and wilfully ignorant.
EM has never been good at handovers or succession planning. However, I think the attitude since early 2020 is that anyone leaving because they've been NSI'd was so bad at their job, so worthless as an employee, that any new grad or someone off the street could replace them with little or no training.
I don't think they ever considered how many RE people would just up and leave and how many years of experience was walking out the door. It's a lesson for the younger folk who are left - this is how bad your "leaders" are at planning and strategy, and the exodus of RE staff shows you how badly they think the company treats its staff.
All of our wonderful and smart principals and senior principals should be more than able to mentor!