Posted on 09/29/2023 12:34:55 PM PDT by nickcarraway
I worked for ten Fortune 500 or 100 corporations. Of all my bosses there are 2-3 I’d mourn. Middle management in such companies is a thankless, miserable job. Basically you work until your boss needs to throw someone under the bus, if your number comes up, you’re gone.
I witness this a lot more frequently starting about 5 years ago, especially if they bring in an outsider. Once someone knows they're not the next candidate, why stick around?
The supervisor left 2.5 weeks later and gave no notice to his new boss.
I've seen no-notice quitting very rarely but I now witness paired departures where one tells the other, "If you go, I go, because there's no way I'm getting all this dumped on me after you're gone." It's not just boss-underling departures but also peer-to-peer pairings. The trigger event is often an internal move, not just retirements or employees quitting for other jobs. Coworkers confide in me that they suspect they didn't get hired for an internal position not because they were too valuable to lose, but because their boss knew if they moved, their coworker would leave right behind them. The bosses are gambling when trapping someone in a position like that and I think as they do it to more and more staff the balancing act collapses all at once.
I blame the paired departures on the short-staffing that's been the norm since the Depression of 2008. It's bad enough to be doing 3 jobs but doing 6 just isn't going to happen.
2008 was the exact year uneducated business management assholes started getting hired by companies and companies loyalties to their employees died.
When Obama destroyed the medical device industry that year , our company was swarmed with “recent graduate managers” who knew absolutely nothing before the buyouts and shipping jobs to Ireland cut up and dissolved the entire industry. He turned it to shit overnight and the skilled labor on down disappeared.
That’s a bingo! That is why we all must save and live below our means. They will eventually come after anyone who is trying to make their company great again.
So, if the company find out you voted for the wrong person, you’re history.
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