Ever notice how most AVPs and above have so little field knowledge. Yet they all act like this place would implode without them. Hard to be a leader when you don’t understand the basics. Where do they find these clowns?
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Where do they find these clowns?
The eBay of resumes: LinkedIn
One of those mo--nic clowns in Catherine Brightman, AVP Technology in HR.
Totally clueless SMU graduate who can't manage herself out of a wet paper bag. Horrible manager! Young, full of herself, etc. The woman makes me want to vomit.
at this point, i'd rather have Lu----r as my boss.
L3/L4/L5 are mostly women filling a quota
One came from CNN.
How long has everyone been saying that we need to flatten orgs? Wasn't the AVP level targeted to be eliminated years ago? Useless level, but every AVP will cling to that level with white knuckles because it's such a cush position.
Oh there are lots pole climbers at the top. Wink wink.
I’ve known one AVP (of many) who was very technically savvy. Most are empty suits lording over their little “kingdoms” of sychophants.
Yet they all act like this place would implode without them.
Fake it till you make it, except you never make it so you have to keep faking it.
Where do they find these clowns?
Losers attract losers. AT&T's board of directors just brought aboard Marissa Mayer, the same lady who destroyed Tumblr and sunk Yahoo further into the sh----r with inane polices that have been proven to fail countless times.
Because when the company is making the same exact mistakes as Yahoo did back in the day, why not just jam the stick all the way down and hurl the plane into the ground even faster? That makes total sense.
I'll just say this: AT&T was finished when they plugged their ears and started ignoring the people on the ground.
On the rare occasion when a legitimate concern actually makes it onto a town hall, Jeremy Legg immediately gets irritated, argumentative, and defensive. A deaf piece of sh-t who thinks he's always right and everyone else is wrong. And guess what fu--ing happens? A call with management about "we don't have enough people to maintain critical systems" turns into a nationwide outage a month later.
How many CEO's have climbed a telephone pole?
AT&T was hit hard when it was consumed by SBC. SBC C-suite made bad decision after bad decision and sent it into a tail spin that it may never recover from. I hope RJS is proud!
A cr--kerjack box
Isn't that why they pay you for?
"Where did they find these clowns?"
Same place they found the Stink - hiding under some rock...
What do you expect when the CEO's
latest moniker is "always on"!
WHAT A JOKE, I HAVE METRONET FIBER TO MY HOUSE, SURPRISE, ITS ALWAYS ON TOO!
Don't need field experience when you use contractors. Just need to know where to issue the PO.
Combine that with the fact that lower levels of management have less and less decision making authority, and you have those who know the least about the impact of their decisions making more of them. And anyone who isn't a yes-man and questions the validity of those decisions gets fired.