Is it their goal to undermine the company? For what purpose? I honestly don’t get how this could be good for us.
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still not sure how promoting someone to Distinguished less than 3 and half of years of school helps Verizon at all, prior to that becoming a Distinguished Engineer had to be earned by accomplishing 3 miracles not coding spaghetti that is batched based, maintained on a laptop, chick scratch documentation too. Executive Management should be all over this and that employee above and their whole management organization let go immediately for allowing that type of situation to occur with no severance. Good bye boat in Miami..
Dollar Bill Y'all
Because the experts provide realism and are blunt as to why somethings won't work in the time frame they want. Leaders want Yes people.... just look at the execs that 'retired'...
@OP They’re focused on advancing their own careers by hook or by crook. They’re not concerned about the good of the company. By the way, anyone more knowledgeable than them is perceived as a potential threat that needs to be neutralized (tall poppy syndrome).
What is seen in N&T, NO ONE cares on tenure or experience, except you are Yes-Man or buddy, otherwise all are evaluated on Number $$$ on spreadsheet and sort by $$$. Maybe not true for all AD or Sr.Dir level but I have been to meeting where you someone just justify their decisions based on $$$ saving max by RIF xyz-resource. how much saving by RIF this contractor or employee? That’s all, knowledge or experience or later hick ups expected to be picked by left over bodies on the team.
Of course above AD or SD, this does not apply, this is individual 6v, 7,8… or contractors.
@ac
You are 100% correct!
To build on a prior point (regarding Indian culture), when the C suite comes up with dum--ss ideas, managers are too afraid to push back (their own career is over ethics/integrity). This seems to apply to managers at VZ no matter where they come from, and for corporate America in general.
30+ years here who was let go this past November. Was with the company literally right out of high school. Because we didn’t put up with the company’s stupid bullsh-t. The ones we used to respect were long gone and nothing left in leadership but the shittiest people. Speak up, you’re out!
Because that would require logical pro active thinking that VZ leaders no longer have.
There are a couple of possibilities:
Experienced employees generally mean EXPENSIVE employees. If you believe the AI hype, AI is the great equalizer that compensates for lack of knowledge and experience. Or, even more likely, they just don't care, and want to purge the most expense from the books as efficiently as possible.
A lot of leaders are younger than these experienced employees, and therefore arrogantly dismiss them as "boomers" or "grandpa/grandma" whose day is over.
They also probably feel intimidated by senior employees who don't ask "how high?" when these new younger leaders say "jump".