Want to know what it's like working in HR at Pluralsight? Let me give you a glimpse into our world.
Imagine having an executive who refuses to run their own department. Imagine trying your hardest to get initiatives off the ground, only to have them avoid meetings and any form of communication or follow-through. After a while you inevitably realize what you're working with: a leader that could care less about improving services to our employees, who makes decisions on limited information, and expects a team of expensive outside consultants to understand our people better than she does.
You tell yourself that surly the employees will notice, surely the other executives will care about the many missteps and mistakes impacting their people. You pray that she is making the right calls, when in your gut you know that things are going to fail again. Then you learn that when employee surveys come in, your leader buries the negative feedback and the other execs never see the terrible comments about our team over and over. Even worse, when someone has the courage to champion change, they are pushed out.
Instead of working to fix our issues, we learn to not talk about them.
Aaron, can't you see that Anita is inadequate for this job? It makes me cringe when the leaders on our team whisper that she will eventually be gone, eventually the other execs will see what we are suffering through and will finally show her the door. We have no faith in our internal surveys, and are scared out of our minds to say anything. Most of us have families we are providing for and are not in a position to lose our jobs. There is no motivation to excel on this team or to fix what is broken: Anita will either push us out because she's intimidated by us, or we will be used us as a scapegoat for any number of her bad calls.
