Tales from a botched reorg

And they just posted notice that 4 more people split, including an officer who I briefly worked with and would have sworn up and down was a lifer.

The quote is in a common area, so I think I am safe unless they analyze fingerprints.
 
Heck, I went through more reorgs than I can count... only a few times did I get something that was a lot worse than I had...

Now, that does not prevent them from putting in a green 'up and coming' manager who knows nothing about the job you do... and then procedes to lay off everybody because they are 'too old' and think her ideas are BS... I was told by someone who worked for me in London that when she came over to 'talk to the troups' that they were going over their budget etc. etc. and trying to explain something to her... her comment back to them was 'I am not an accountant and I know nothing about foreign exchange'.... but since that was her job.... well....



SOOOO, except for that one bad experience... I never had a problem with reorgs...
 
I'm getting flashbacks....
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Brew, glad to hear that your interviews out west went well. Let's hope that works out if the bailing parties will need to include you! This truly sounds like it sucks big time. At least you are keeping your sense of humor amid the madness.
 
Based on the farewell notices posted internally, these morons have lost 1.5% of the staff in the past week.
 
brewer12345 said:
Based on the farewell notices posted internally, these morons have lost 1.5% of the staff in the past week.
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And without any severance pay. The ones that leave usually are above average contributors. If this is your case, looks like there's going to be some serious workload redistribution coming up. The top performers better watch out
 
MichaelB said:
And without any severance pay. The ones that leave usually are above average contributors. If this is your case, looks like there's going to be some serious workload redistribution coming up. The top performers better watch out
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The people that have left over the past week are the cream of the crop, including someone who got an award given to one person in the entire organization each year that comes with a substantial cash prize. I hear through the grapevine that there are a whole bunch more who are readying their exit strut, too.
 
Wow, that is incredible! How bad must it be for so many to bail at once? You surely have my sympathies and my hopes for your own "rooster strut" out the door soon.
 
brewer12345 said:
The people that have left over the past week are the cream of the crop . . .
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Bah! They were QUITTERS! Malcontents who were probably subverting the organization anyway. The remaining group will be a solid group of team players willing to put themselves second in pursuit of organizational goals. Until they, too, get their resumes done.
 
samclem said:
Bah! They were QUITTERS! Malcontents who were probably subverting the organization anyway. The remaining group will be a solid group of team players willing to put themselves second in pursuit of organizational goals. Until they, too, get their resumes done.
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The spin being spun at the moment is that this is just pent up turnover, natural after a period of a poor labor market conditions that gives way to a better market. there is some truth to this, but knowing some of the bailouts suggests that this is not really the motivating factor.
 
brewer12345 said:
The spin being spun at the moment is that this is just pent up turnover, natural after a period of a poor labor market conditions that gives way to a better market. there is some truth to this, but knowing some of the bailouts suggests that this is not really the motivating factor.
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There probably is some truth to that spin.... I just don't see everybody packing up and leaving without some other 'thing' happening... its not like you were being beaten every day and now it is up to three beatings a day...

I am sure that the reorg could have been handled better... but except for the raise issue is the working enviornment that toxic:confused:
 
Texas Proud said:
There probably is some truth to that spin.... I just don't see everybody packing up and leaving without some other 'thing' happening... its not like you were being beaten every day and now it is up to three beatings a day...
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If it was an improving economy you would likely see people leaving regularly but not in groups - more like a neverending stream. When a group leaves right after a reorganization it's a stretch to point to external factors. If the folks at the top identify and monitor top performers, they should be very concerned right now. If they aren't talking with the folks that have remained, especially the remaining top talent, they are pretty clueless.
 
Brewer, good luck on the interviews--and good to have people precede you out the door so they can hold open their new doors for you one day if you need them to.

And Ed--

Ed_The_Gypsy said:
HAHAHAHAHA!

When we lived in Chi-town, one radio station chanted how this was "the great North West territory". Since when??
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Ah but it is/was--from 1787 to 1803, Northwest Territory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (more historical info than one would ever want to know). And Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. was founded in 1851 ... "to serve the people of a region that had once been known as the Northwest Territory."
 

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MichaelB said:
If it was an improving economy you would likely see people leaving regularly but not in groups - more like a neverending stream. When a group leaves right after a reorganization it's a stretch to point to external factors. If the folks at the top identify and monitor top performers, they should be very concerned right now. If they aren't talking with the folks that have remained, especially the remaining top talent, they are pretty clueless.
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The powers that be started a review process of all the most promising senior staff and lower level officers before the the troops began deserting by the platoon. I am part of it and the review has strong overtones of "run all the prize sheep through the same dip."

These people most hear what they want to hear and nobody that I know would bother risking being frank with them.
 
We got a missive from above, which was a claasic of its kind. Among other things, it acknowledged the recent departures and said that this is a good thing because it means that the business climate is improving and it helps [-]infect[/-] spread to other firms our culture and view of the world. Uh, yeah, right.

Meanwhile, I got an offer out West. Its not quite up to what I want, but workable and the hiring manager hinted that there is wiggle room so I think we can work it out. It will involve a messy relocation, but I escape the mess here, get to do interesting work, and get my post career move paid for now. Plus I will be able to look up Dex.
 
brewer12345 said:
We got a missive from above, which was a claasic of its kind. Among other things, it acknowledged the recent departures and said that this is a good thing because it means that the business climate is improving and it helps [-]infect[/-] spread to other firms our culture and view of the world. Uh, yeah, right.

Meanwhile, I got an offer out West. Its not quite up to what I want, but workable and the hiring manager hinted that there is wiggle room so I think we can work it out. It will involve a messy relocation, but I escape the mess here, get to do interesting work, and get my post career move paid for now. Plus I will be able to look up Dex.
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1 - If they really believe that, then that is scary. If they really believe that the staff will beleive that......then that is even scarier.

2 - Congrats on the job offer!
 
KM said:
1 - If they really believe that, then that is scary. If they really believe that the staff will beleive that......then that is even scarier.

2 - Congrats on the job offer!
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The upper reaches of management in this place say such wacked out nonsense on such a regular basis that I have no idea what they really believe. Clearly the staff will be chuckling over this statement for weeks.

Thanks. I am ready for a new chapter in my life.
 
Don't go! This employer would be grist for hundreds of funny posts. What would have happened if Scott Adams had left Crocker Bank and Pacific Bell?
 
Best of luck to you. If they reorganize you out of a job, would you get a severance package?

I agree with samclem... you could entertain us with the "company line stories" for at least a couple of more weeks.
 
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