Our new manager asked me to explain what our team actually does during his third week on the job. The kicker is that he came from a completely unrelated industry with zero relevant experience. Meanwhile, three qualified internal candidates got passed over. These days it feels like management roles go to whoever best fakes competence in interviews rather than anyone who actually knows the business.
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Yep. I believe it. My boss and his boss are new also. Neither have a clue! I will say she tries very hard to learn, whileche just misses the mark nonstop.
“That’s the new trend here.”
It is actually the old trend. All the bozos from VP on up are outside id--ts with a blo and go job description. Id--ts that know nothing about technology, innovation, productization, leadership, or insightful risk taking. They all come in, blo their superiors as a yes man or woman and leave careless destruction in their path because they never worked a real job or owned a business or successfully managed a team in their entire life.
"Our new manager asked me to explain what our team actually does during his third week on the job."
Were you able to explain what your team did?
That’s the new trend here. MGO is hiring some new VPs and apparently they will be external. Would be nice if the saw how much time we waste running around to make silly PowerPoints for useless meetings whose only purpose is to have someone read the stupid PowerPoint to everyone, but they will likely just be clones of the current crop of wasted space.
It's who you know! Always has!
“My new manager is white”
And f he wasn’t, why would it matter?
Maybe he doesn’t understand what your team does because what it does has little to no value. Maybe you’re on one of these teams whose purpose is to interface and drive value by ensuring alignment through the use of pointless decks and ‘collaboration’ - you know, the BS that white (and others, but mostly white) MBAs love to do to justify themselves.
Oh this is hilarious.
I said NOTHING about race when I posted about the OPs predisposition to find fault with their new manager, and I was honestly not even thinking about it. I was just speaking to their bias against ANY outsider coming in , and getting the job over the alleged highly qualified inside candidates (again - none of this probably true).
Within a millisecond--- you're on here talking about MY obsession with race. LMAO.
So enlightening. And BTW, I am an old white dude. No purple hair.
You are a bitter and sad person.
This is OP. Just to clarify for anyone assuming this is about race - it’s not. My new manager is white. This is entirely about his qualifications, or lack thereof.
My office fired about 7 25+ year managers and replaced them with new managers that came from competitors or mobility. They received almost zero training and are struggling. Who is making these decisions?
“sounds like you had a predisposition to find fault with this person anyway.”
OP stated a legitimate concern that his new boss has zero relevant experience and from a different industry and you completely ignore it and go right for the race card? A predisposition to find fault and an unconscious bias? Take a long walk off a short bridge Jeremy junior.
Hard to believe.
If true (which it probably isn't...)---sounds like you had a predisposition to find fault with this person anyway.
This person probably asked you a legit question, and your bias kicks in and you spin it to make him look bad.
Finally, if you legitimately had qualified internal candidates (which again, probably isn't true, like this complete story)---well then, that speaks volumes as well. It's always far easier in every aspect to slide an internal candidate in versus an external one. If they opted to go external, what a collection of inept miscreants that must be on your team.
Does anyone really know what your team does?
DEI hire?
So you're mad that people interview well? "Knows the business"? Stop. Lol.