CEO sent an email yesterday saying there would be a mass layoff and we would get an invite if we were affected. Completely heartless and we all freaked out all day. still expected to work until you found out if you were safe or fired and then carry on business as usual. So many managers had no idea what was going on and those who did were busy firing people. People who were fired were still getting pinged for work stuff all day because no one knows who still had a job. No follow up so we didn’t know at the end of day if it was over or not for sure or who in teams outside our own survived.
Complete burnout culture. You work nights and weekends, unless you’re a upper management. No direction on longer term goals: throw things at the wall and see what sticks. Higher ups are never held accountable for misses that affect the bottom line and aren’t actually expected to try to help their people improve but first line always blamed for every little thing. After the layoffs, they are saying that we are needed and to keep our heads down and hustle. For what! So we can take on other people’s work they fired with no increase in our pay and loose our jobs if the company goes bankrupt while they don’t have to worry about making rent and will find another job to screw over other employees?
No diversity at the top besides some women: all white.
If you want to get promoted, you basically have to hope your team has high turnover (likely) and you take on a ton of work. And even then, they have to either be scared to loose you or be one of the obvious favorites and also hope they haven’t promoted too many people recently who do less than you because you’ll get told it wasn’t approved because of budget.
Moving managers or orgs often because higher management has no idea how to organize teams or work that last and don’t care if you have 3+ managers in a year but your annual review is still accurate because your boss’s boss who you never talk to alone agrees with the score.
