If you are still here you are not smart enough to pursue other (better) opportunities. And while you might think you are an SME, any new hire can learn your job.
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Hey - to "extremely toxic" === betcha you are ready to ride that rocket, eh right?
I can assure you that our clients already know that the sme network is gone, the gig is up! No amount of new talent will be able to replace what has been lost.
This is how you know this place is extremely toxic …. The leadership has SME’s and newbies fighting on a layoff site….RIDICULOUS
@1ogz, they’re f**cked already, just don’t know it yet.
@1qec+1qFoHCsq
"Ignorance is bliss"
The new young g-ns won't be sitting around licking the windows for 10 yrs waiting for someone to declare them SME. we'll get down to business.
1cxz+1qFoHCsq
Being a SME In my part of the company is more than just the software. Your immediate assumption it’s just about software betrays your lack of experience and understanding of how the business should actually be run. Mo--n.
OP: “Still here” - so you’re one of the expendables then right?
@1cxz+1qFoHCsq
You cannot become a cardiologist in 10 years or less. You also have to finish in top percentage of you med class to specialize in cardiology. You however, could be an astronaut in 10 years or less, well maybe not you. I have a feeling you're the chump.
You are the one going to be stuck supporting that software, not us. Not after the layoff.
10 years to be an SME for some poorly written software? Not sure I'd admit that. You could be a cardiologist in less than 10 years. Well, maybe not you.
LOL I assure I’m a SME, and I assure you no newbie can learn my job unless they put in 10 + years learning it.
Clueless noobs out of college never stopped Accenture.
Sounds like Frankie boi is taking a page from them.
There are still some SME’s left but in the next year they will either retire or be let go due to being remote. BH is hiring people straight out of college to replace people with years of experience. It’s a joke , these kids will have no one to learn from.
The newbies don't learn anything without the input of the remaining SMEs. As their numbers dwindle, the newbies ability to become SMEs is drastically reduced. Some disciplines have already lost all SMEs or are about to when the next round of 'it's your turn now' communications go out.
Given that the stated goal is to reduce product count drastically in the next five years, the newbies are on a ship that's already sinking. Once they understand the pile they've stepped into I imagine they will be on their way with their new found 'experience',
OP is correct. You weren't sh-t out of your mother's womb knowing this stuff. They can learn it just like you did. The issue will be the "quality" of the new hire. Depending on that, the OP is off. Way off.
Our clients are going to find out if that is true or not.
@OP+1qFoHCsq - YOU will never be an SME of anything. Stay away from this site and continue playing your video games. BTW, how's living in your parents basement?
Seriously, 100% the SME are dwindling. But there are still a few if you so close to retirement that we are holding on to finish on our terms, or catch the next RIF fir severance.
Soon, I will agree with you because they will all get let go, or age out.
God help our clients.
Well, they can't learn the job of a SME....because none are left to teach it.