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Corporate Culture on the Skids
Jun. 17th, 2003 08:52 amAll the crap at work continues to just churn and churn.
Now that things are settling down from the big data conversion we had way back in February, we're working on merging operations with our sister company. Since we're the bigger group, you would think we would continue with our structures, policies and procedures, but such is not the case.
It seems that some politics are being played at some very high levels. The division president seems to be loosing, even though he will head the merged group. The emperor seems to be naked.
This is why my entire level of management is being kicked down...the other company doesn't have it. This is the first of a great many changes that are coming down the pike. the problem is, we're all in the dark. Corporate communication has remained nearly silent on what's going on, until yesterday.
Yesterday other people in management started getting the news. Your position is going to be cut. completely. By such date, you will be sent home with a severance. Naturally, there's mad scrambling going on.
I'm lucking out. Despite the desire to move to other parts of the company, I've stayed in the retirement division, and this is a good thing. We're understaffed, majorly understaffed, so my job is safe, if not quite what I want it to be. I am afforded a luxury, I can look for a new job in relative comfort.
You see though, I do need to move on. Things just don't look good. I'll give you yet more fodder.
Gary, one of the managers took a job with one of our competitors (yes, I will hand him a resume, and I'm sure 50 others will too). Gary's getting a really good job, running an operations department elsewhere. A step up. With this, someone has to fill his job.
No, it won't be me. the company is still way to top heavy. One of the other managers will take it. One of those that was told their job would be phased out in a few months.
Gary's move then prompted my boss Gina to tell me that she will likely be moved to fill Gary's spot and the new manager will be my new boss. I don't want another boss. Gina's been pretty decent, if a bit idiosyncratic. She hands me a lot of interesting projects, and she gets so busy that often she leaves me alone to do them. Carte Blanc. That's my favorite way to work - you take care of it, I trust you. Let me look at the finished product. The end.
A new manager always means bad things.
Greg is good friends with Gary, they hang in the same social circles and belong to the Houston Bunnies, a charitable club that puts on a big circuit-type party every Easter. Greg will be out the door soon. It's a given. Screaming Amy is next. She's getting married in October, and i think she's just biding her time until then.
I have half a mind to stick around just to see what happens after the fallout, but I think I'm not going to like the new corporate culture. There still isn't room to climb higher, because too many people are jockeying for lateral moves to positions that are still marked to stay, but there pissing off enough people that the best and brightest are leaving.
I've got time, and I don't have to make a rash move. This is a good thing. I still could use a kick in the pants.
Now that things are settling down from the big data conversion we had way back in February, we're working on merging operations with our sister company. Since we're the bigger group, you would think we would continue with our structures, policies and procedures, but such is not the case.
It seems that some politics are being played at some very high levels. The division president seems to be loosing, even though he will head the merged group. The emperor seems to be naked.
This is why my entire level of management is being kicked down...the other company doesn't have it. This is the first of a great many changes that are coming down the pike. the problem is, we're all in the dark. Corporate communication has remained nearly silent on what's going on, until yesterday.
Yesterday other people in management started getting the news. Your position is going to be cut. completely. By such date, you will be sent home with a severance. Naturally, there's mad scrambling going on.
I'm lucking out. Despite the desire to move to other parts of the company, I've stayed in the retirement division, and this is a good thing. We're understaffed, majorly understaffed, so my job is safe, if not quite what I want it to be. I am afforded a luxury, I can look for a new job in relative comfort.
You see though, I do need to move on. Things just don't look good. I'll give you yet more fodder.
Gary, one of the managers took a job with one of our competitors (yes, I will hand him a resume, and I'm sure 50 others will too). Gary's getting a really good job, running an operations department elsewhere. A step up. With this, someone has to fill his job.
No, it won't be me. the company is still way to top heavy. One of the other managers will take it. One of those that was told their job would be phased out in a few months.
Gary's move then prompted my boss Gina to tell me that she will likely be moved to fill Gary's spot and the new manager will be my new boss. I don't want another boss. Gina's been pretty decent, if a bit idiosyncratic. She hands me a lot of interesting projects, and she gets so busy that often she leaves me alone to do them. Carte Blanc. That's my favorite way to work - you take care of it, I trust you. Let me look at the finished product. The end.
A new manager always means bad things.
Greg is good friends with Gary, they hang in the same social circles and belong to the Houston Bunnies, a charitable club that puts on a big circuit-type party every Easter. Greg will be out the door soon. It's a given. Screaming Amy is next. She's getting married in October, and i think she's just biding her time until then.
I have half a mind to stick around just to see what happens after the fallout, but I think I'm not going to like the new corporate culture. There still isn't room to climb higher, because too many people are jockeying for lateral moves to positions that are still marked to stay, but there pissing off enough people that the best and brightest are leaving.
I've got time, and I don't have to make a rash move. This is a good thing. I still could use a kick in the pants.
