What I’m getting at, is what sort of company is as hostile a work environment? I wouldn’t stay at that company for one full day.
Expand on WTF is going on there....
Back home now.
Everything about my employer is about numbers and "Metrics".
The metrics is what grades those on commision and mgrs and affects their pay. Those people are on service routes (not me). Twice a year, Corp comes up with a new pay plan for those on routes, but is a new wording of how they will not pay techs who bust their butts.
Turn over for that group is about 90%.
Managers have to meet their own metrics, they have to do so by also servicing routes.
New hires that are good at one needed service are then placed in a service area they are not able to handle. The new hires bust their butts but cannot meet the metrics. Thus they leave for not being paid or fired though the area they are good at will stay short handed.
Many managers leave after 1.5 years or risk being fired.
In the local office, there is only one person still there in my 7.5 years there.
I have had 5 branch managers in that time period. Office personal are fired for doing too good of a job that could make a service manager look bad in their mind.
The really odd part is that my branch is the largest in the country in territory size and customer base.
For the last 5 years, we have been Corp's experiment and are severely micro managed by Corp down to the individual employee.
Three rules that we were told 4 years ago:
*Don't draw attention to yourself
*Don't rock the boat
*Don't make career limiting moves
I violated all those long time ago.
I have seen co-workers promoted to other cities and then fired inside a year. They sold their house to make the move and bought in the new town...they were screwed.
It is all about the Numbers and the Metrics.
I will set off another Dumpster Fire in Corp at the next coming safety Stand down coming up soon.
I've done two dumbster fires in the last nine months...everyone else was/is scared to point out these Corp ethics violations or turn a blind eye in hope of a promotion. Even my direct DM has ethics violations to Corp written policies.
But then again, the whiz bang MBA kids know best.