If you've been here for years and you're unhappy, maybe it's time to see what else is out there. Experience doesn't mean you have to spend the rest of your career in the same place. There are places that will make you happy. Go and find them.
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Hey, of course I don’t have to say “forever”, but some of us actually love our careers, and truly believe in the mission. It hurts when I see the entire company’s culture just disappearing, turning into something entirely different. The new Medtronic model is profit comes first, and that is why I’m looking for a career elsewhere.
MN MDT employees have been suxing off the MDT tatty for years and seem to be the most unhappy people on this webpage and have zero chance of getting jobs anywhere with there skill sets.
@a8 no notes. 5 stars
@ak counterpoint- there are a lot of posters here who seem to think a 90k person company should be-doverbackwards to accommodate their whims and fancy.
Other posters seem convinced that the DEI boogeyman is what’s holding them back at Medtronic.
Others see what they perceive as failed leadership. And plenty of posters have some deranged idea that Elliot Management is somehow going to improve their day to day and being back the pre-Covidien days.
The sentiment to the OP is that if Medtronic is no longer working for your individual goals and ideals that nobody is forcing you to work here. If you don’t like the DEI go find a role that doesn’t have ERG’s. If you don’t like the in-office mandates, find a company who has a remote role for you. If you think your director has the intellect of a door knob, go to a company not run by clowns.
@OP Nothing is forever
@OP
Ok, Captain Obvious. What a condescending, patronizing, and tone-deaf comment.
People are looking to leave because they’re unhappy and clearly feel that something needs to change. I’m not sure what your intention was with this response, but if the goal was to encourage or reassure people, it missed the mark miserably.
Comments like this don’t address the very real reasons people are feeling frustrated; they only come across as dismissive and out of touch.
How's that boot leather tasting this morning?
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Ah yes, the timeless wisdom of “if you’ve been here too long, maybe you should leave.” Because apparently tenure is now a more serious performance issue than incompetence.
Of course, having the right relationships—knowing exactly who to charm, who to lick a$$, and who to keep from looking too closely—can make someone appear remarkably successful. How convenient! And apparently, if you’re good enough at that particular skill, everyone else is simply expected to accept the consequences.
But let’s not confuse being well-connected with being good at your job. And let’s definitely not gaslight people who actually perform into believing that they should leave simply because they’ve been around “too long.”
If someone consistently delivers, contributes, and does their job well, perhaps the problem isn’t that they’ve stayed too long. Perhaps the problem is a culture that rewards appearances, politics, and proximity while treating actual performance as expendable.
What a fascinating way to run an organization: reward the people who know how to look indispensable, then tell the people who actually are useful that it’s time to move on.
Brilliant. Absolutely no notes.