Is anyone else experiencing their office becoming a hostile work environment. Has anyone else been out for day only come in and find their assigned cubicle being cleaned out and someone else taking it over? I am here to do a job not fight for survival each day. This is unhealthy and unprofessional and I'm finally going to leave.
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I, too, see the panic in leadership.
In 20 years I've never seen morale so low.
I sense a panic in senior leadership. Goals are not being met, numbers are not as expected. Every week they get a bit more on edge and snappy. Yes I’ve been cursed at on conference calls from VPs. They think they can do whatever. Best way to get back is to delay delay delay. They might think they have the upper hand, but I can also hold up their pet project. Better be nice.
I agree with the prior post as folk are just being underhanded, rude, downright mean and disrespectful to one another on calls etc.....Some not even showing up! (IBM outsourcing appears to be the link there). I guess folks are frustrated, upset, insecure and scared about their jobs, all of which leads to a hostile work environment. People Just be kind, have compassion and most of all be respectful to fellow employees. We are all in this together and in the same proverbial boat as they say and want to see the company and ourselves succeed.....
Sitting in an open work area you hear everyone and everything. This one manager was overheard on a call commenting on measurement of intelligence. This person was saying how intelligent they were and making it sound like they are the next Einstein.
Also the same person openly criticizes their team mates for all to hear.
I believe you have my stapler!
T is a hostile environment period. Why I left life is to short and wasn’t paying me enough to put up with it.
Had a boss once, was the foulest mouth I’ve heard in a workplace. Told us on multiple occasions that we were paid well enough that he could talk to us or treat us anyway he pleased and management above him had his back. Having multiple grievances ignored by 3rd level with recordings tells the sad truth of the matter. Buck up or move on. Expecting change is the wrong thing to do.
If it's your assigned space tell them to get their sh*t and get the F out.
There is a reason for the hostile environment. The company is definitely in free fall and that, in itself, breeds an atmosphere of fear and loathing. John Donovan's "retirement" was a sign of more carnage to follow. Compare his departure to others you have seen. There is always someone to step in to fill their shoes. When someone retires under normal circumstances and in good stead it is planned well in advance so there is an announced replacement. Donovan's departure was sudden, apparently unplanned and indicative IMHO of disarray at the top. In fact, I would say that it was a glimpse through a usually locked door of the complete lack of coherence that prevails in the executive suite. I'll bet it is really a hostile environment there. Stephenson spent the rent money on an extravagant plan to become a media company. It is not working out the way he had hoped. He is at strike 3 in this ballgame but still he remains: first the T-Mobile debacle, then the DTV melting ice cube made worse by a botched integration into the AT&T infrastructure, and now the Time Warner disaster. And, just like the DTV deal they bought something and made it worse. And TW is apparently a particularly instructive example of hostility in the workplace.
Consider the plight of HBO and Time Warner personnel in general. Putting someone like Stankey in charge of a group of creatives will go down in history as one of the worst business decisions yet. If half of what it says in this article (https://nypost.com/2019/08/18/execs-style-puts-hbo-streaming-plan-in-peril-critics/) is true then his effect on profitability will not be pretty. HBO execs questioned him on the incoherence of the AT&T streaming situation (a very valid point). He proceeded to tell some of the most successful people in the business that he, a bell-head, knew more about TV than anyone. What do you suppose their reaction would be? Do you suppose they said to themselves: "Yeah, John, you're right. We are not worthy of being your minions."? Or do you think maybe that they started to plan among themselves how to undermine him or find a way out of AT&T? They are successful and creative people who are not used to being treated like chattel. Did he really think he made them believe in the AT&T non-strategy for streaming?? That outburst on his part showed a lack of people skills and a hubris that is truly breathtaking. But it was also a sign of weakness. AT&T's streaming picture is, in fact, incoherent but the apparent disarray in the executive suite makes it hard to fix. His outburst was a glimpse at the frustration that a lack of coherence and leadership brings. He is under great pressure to perform but if he continues to treat the people he depends on in that manner AT&T will destroy whatever value Time Warner may have had. So, yeah, hostile work environment are us. And it is the result of extreme pressure born of failure to pull off a risky plan and all the resentment that that brings. And as we all know sh– flows downhill.
I am here to do a job not fight for survival each day.
Lol. Overly dramatic much?