I’m fine here, I have to be honest, I’m paid for doing a job I really love. However, lately I’ve been bothered by snobbery, which I can’t get used to. I feel like I’m being asked to take that snobbish stance too in order to fit in better and progress faster.
Before Nike, I worked for a company that also valued some kind of elitism, but it wasn’t nearly as bad as here.
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I had two different managers who regularly used our 1:1 meetings to talk about themselves and how their career at Nike was going. It's super rare to find a manager who actually cares about finding and developing talent. It's all about their next move up the ladder.
It is not that the snobs fit in better, it is weak leadership and direct managers who are busy managing up that allow for this to happen. Personally, I work for the weakest manager of all at Nike; what is bad, that person is of the same band as I am. All my manager does is try to look good with others and ends up putting the team, direct report, last.
Not the place for the meek and humble. If you are 6 ft, blonde, look like an athlete, act the part, good at power point presentations, can back stab as needed, love BS meetings and appearing busy or useful - you’ll go far. If you just want to keep your nose to the grind with empathy for others? Think again....
The white folks in Oregon are something else, aren't they? I've worked with actual Ivy League educated colleagues who don't put on nearly as much airs as a Nike employee who is an Oregon native and an UO/OSU alum. I've had to bite my tongue many times to not burst out laughing at their self-importance.
Can you elaborate?