I wouldn’t mind if it was for the sake of efficiency and work results. It’s not, and never was, the best mgmt style, but I would tolerate it if it was about work. However, it’s not. It’s about exercising power, control issues, petty office politics, and almost never about the actual work. It’s stressful, demoralizing, and very disruptive.
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Sounds like Risk. No real deliverables, just BS politics from management that will flip a decision on a dime to save face and not annoy the business.
There is a massive chasm between executives and managers, especially at this company when managers aren't empowered to do anything anymore.
Management is a role that typically fits narcissistic personality disorder. It's like this at any company.
Read up on NPD and you're reading about your manager.
According to many psychologists, most of the CEOs and executives are psychopaths / narcissists.
It's a vicious cycle. Management pushes people to the brink, they lose trust in management and start quiet quitting, management loses more trust, and the toxic cycle continues.
Totally agree with OP! In TEC, once we were centralized —-some managers really were obviously on their own power trips.
Spot on OP.
There really should be a sociological and pyschological study of how the workplace experience has changed. Fear is the main theme. Wells Fargo is one of many employers taking their employees down a path to serfdom, installing moats everywhere for self preservation at all costs.
The erosion of trust in one's own hired professionals is an absolute tragedy and degrades society nibble by nibble.
At WF, a MEETS is achieved by simply never questioning and just doing. Nothing else matters: not my level of skill, not my intuition, not my experience, not my potential.
We are fully formed adults being treated like children that a parent never wanted in the first place.
A great place to spend 40+ hours a week hey?