Pembina is the only company I worked for in my career where if a quality person and decent performer accepted a position at another company, we didn’t openly celebrate them or look inward as to why they left. As soon as the person had one foot out the door, they were criticized and their contributions minimized. It was serious Stockholm syndrome.
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@4ppj+19Vba2xu, exactly, this happened to me too, it's as if you are not allowed to go anywhere else until they give you their permission.
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Yep.. former colleague of mine was poached by a competitor and when he approached our manager about the opportunity said manager questioned the decision and made him feel guilty. He didn't take the bait and left and never looked back. However, after the meeting he started to not only get the silent treatment from the manager but the entire team (minus myself. I was super happy for him). It was like the team felt this guy was abandoning them and the ship. Which was not fair for him looking after HIS family and HIS career. It was a very petty and juvenile response by some of his peers and his "superior". I later heard that HR wasn't impressed by his decision either (shocking). You have to hand it to management and HR at Pembina for being able to create and maintain the antiquated workplace culture for 67 years. In every employee engagement survey I receive, I always write in that they will have a hard time recruiting top young talent due to the culture problem, silo'ed BUs, incompetent middle management, appalling processes and systems... These young kids won't put up with the current culture or simply fall in line like we did or like others did years ago. My gut says that Pembina will simply say to that: Fit in or f— off. Sites like this are great as the dirty laundry can be aired without spiteful vengeance. Look at the topic view counts. Lots of eyes on this page.