Playing devil's advocate, are the managers and below the problem and not the leadership?
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Both, For years they used metrics to rate workers ability and the people that knew how to manipulate their numbers but were cr-p workers got the promotions. Cr-p begets cr-p
This thread is merely a microcosm of the simple fact that is a ten-thousand-foot neon bedazzled billboard to an external observer.
The staggering aimlessness and corporate word vomit around perpetual reorganization is nauseating.
Executive leadership knows what they are doing in one very specific topic. Rest assured they won't miss their payout.
Comcast says they value a "direct relationship with their employees". If this is what they mean by that, I wonder what other parties might be able to step into the conversation to fortify and protect the employees right to be part of the dialogue and not just a one-way recipient of the chaos.
How about both?
@ad I’ve seen my share of unhinged managers, even at the director level and above. Either leadership holds them accountable or enables them, and the dysfunction spreads. Good employees disengage or leave, while bad behavior becomes the norm. At that point, it’s no longer a management problem. It’s a culture problem.
Yes. Manager can be a sociopath and manipulative. Act in their own interest.
No. We do all the work that the leaders tell us to do.
We’ve completely lost the plot. It’s like a movie with 20 directors, all rewriting the script, and then blaming the actors when it bombs at the box office. At other companies, managers are empowered to make decisions that require VP approval here. We’ve created so many layers of leadership that everyone has an opinion, but nobody owns the outcome. Somewhere along the way, we became more focused on managing each other than actually running the business and serving our customers. And now we’re blaming the people executing a strategy they had no hand in creating?
Maybe the problem isn’t the cast. It’s the people writing, directing, and producing this disaster.
Playing devil’s advocate means offering a thoughtful alternative perspective, not throwing out absurd questions just to provoke a reaction. There’s a difference between challenging an argument and manufacturing one. This isn’t critical thinking. It’s just stirring the pot for the sake of it.
What? As a manager, I have no actual power. My Org has had some CRAZY shifts, and I have been seen as the operational ship. So more work gets put on my plate without any real visibility. Meanwhile, the Directors and VPs are in the rooms doing the strategic work I've spent years doing. Comcast has a way of punishing the most competent people on teams, and if that competence threatens your manager, whew chile....The likely scenario in my case is a manager who has never managed a senior, experienced manager. Am I perfect? Fu-k no, but I deliver every time. THE MF PROBLEM is the id--ts running the company into the ground. Playing from a 2003 corporate playbook; newsflash: it's 2026, about to be 2027. "Thank you for coming to my TED Talk".
Even if they were “the” problem, it’s the people above them that are supposed to reel them in, so it’s impossible not to be the people above. It all lands on the leader.
No. As a leader you are always accountable. That's what the money is for.
It’s been going downhill since they acquired sky
No.