One leader speaking to another leader:
You know me, I know you. Let us both work together to protect our job and we will only hire like minded people who will help us protect our job and not raise any valid concerns. I know so many highly qualified applicants who were rejected from cenovus only because hiring managers felt they could challenge their system. What a shameful culture. Whoever reads this message knows deep inside that whatever I have said is 100 percent correct about cenovus culture.
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Pretty sad this is a really sh---y company.. they have the most stupidest people running it. They laid off the good people, but they kept the dummies… how embarrassing the cat they actually laid off key people that is essential to the work being done, and they kept the most stupidest people that sit there in this joke around our attention seeking
Leaders will drive change and make your jobs easier. Managers will dump more workloads to you. We are all tired, boss.
Managers and Leaders are two very different things! Cenovus has all kinds of managers, but very few leaders! Some of the best and brightest leaders have been severed! Some of the worst managers have been severed! We are left with several Managers who strut around in their bespoke suits and wield their power without truly making an effort to understand the issues that are holding us back. I will say there are some true leaders remaining, and I look forward to helping them make Cenovus a better and more successful company! We all benefit from mutual respect and active listening!!!
As a leader (middle management) I agree. We can’t bring problems to the VP level. They don’t want to hear them. I get dismissed and told I’m making it a big deal and it’s not. I get mansplained the problem back to me like I don’t understand it and just needed a higher up to explain it to me better. It’s maddening. They don’t care they just want you to do your job and not bother them. And they can’t be bothered to understand your team’s work so they minimize issues because they don’t really understand what people do day to day. It’s a matter of time before something happens. Again.
A perfect description of the Cenovus mafia.
Very real description of IT SLT. Very sad.
@OP+1jsjv758t Perfect description of our IT leadership team
The leadership at this company is to driven to look good, rather than be good. They keep piling on extra work and not adding extra people. If anyone speaks out, they get told to put extra time in(for free) or find a different job. If you point out flaws in the million KPIs they keep coming up with, they tell you layoffs are coming.
What the OP said is 100% correct. Managers only want people to say yes without question. This is why DS is failing so bad. The managers don't listen to the experts that are trying to make the plants better. The old Husky culture of do your job and shut the f up, is still very strong in the management.
the very real danger of talking about problems at CVE is leadership tends to internalize the dialog and they feel like it's a reflection of them, so they flip it back onto whoever is speaking out and make them the problem for saying anything. If you can't deal with problems head on, please don't go into leadership. Sweeping everything under the carpet resolves nothing.