Another former and quite disgusted staffer pointed me at this forum and asked me to write in, so here's my two denarii.
Over the last three to six years, the ever increasing focus has shifted to Having The Title and insisting on Being Admired for The Title, rather than focusing on the basics of doing the job, knowing the job, seeing that the job really does get done. There have been very good workers over time; I interviewed with and was hired by one of them, someone who is also no longer with the company.
For me and my coworkers, we had to deal with an environment of increasing three card monte support, where more and more, the answer that would be needed might be available, might be in the much touted latest iteration of some database system, or finally might be getting relayed by word of mouth, with resulting likely inaccuracy.
Over one period of about two, three years, the ongoing celebration was of the upcoming Multi-Department Unified Management Production Super-Success---not the actual title, but could have been---. In Scott Adams 1995 book “The Dilbert Principle”, the MUMPS is described with absolute accuracy on pages 129-130, with a title of “Example of the Dinosaur Strategy” Much more recently, there has been much focus on the new Fun Committee, which also turns up in “The Dilbert Principle”, on pages 307-308.
In the 2015/9/11 Glassdoor review with the title of “Failure of leadership ” there is a note about the Employee Engagement Survey from a couple of years back. When it was announced, I was assured by a director who has turned out to be merely a chattering mouthpiece that everyone should fill out the survey because the result absolutely will be distributed to the entire company and will be studied extremely carefully. Many months went by, the delivery date went by, finally in a passing comment from the CEO, there was a statement that well, a very small and select number of senior staff were shown the results. Apparently, the separate and independent review just did not have the planned message, and therefore was tossed.
