You ask three people the same question and get three different answers. All of them sound confident too. So it turns into a game of eeny, meeny, miny, moe to decide what to do. And if you get the wrong one, guess whose fault it is? This whole place has turned into one big joke.
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Its defenitly a sh!t show. All you need is the gift of gab to make it here. Nobody really knows anything. They hate people that seek clarity and are proactive in identifying issues...these ppl are frowned upon. The training is an absolute joke. It's really sad the way this place has went down.
@1a8 I would have chosen other (more aggressive) words, but the sentiment would have been the same. 😉
@1bj I agree. New hires especially from outside the company do not last in the area I work in. We just had a person quit and didn’t even bother to give 2 weeks notice. I couldn’t blame them. Training is a joke and if you ask a question people act like you are being lazy. The people with all the knowledge don’t want to interact at all with new people.
@1a8 this place is so complicated it takes at least a year for anyone new to figure it out - new hire training has become over the years an absolute joke. And when you go to the town hall, you might ask yourself, what are they talking about, what does that mean? They never bother to explain what a project issue, what a goal actually is, just a bunch of garbage with a massive number of "participants" listening at open it up for the 11 min of canned pre written questions. All you need to know is do what you are told to do daily and by the end of the month. It might as well be a factory. You are a rat on the assembly line that just takes up space and has no real value.
@ck This is exactly what is creating the problem. Knowledge of the older employees are leaving the company. When I retired they froze my position, then they hired two people to try to fill the void. What they needed to fill was the knowledge gap and since both hires were external, it did not work. was asked to come back, twice, but retirement is too much fun so I said thanks but no thanks.
Toby, Why are you are the way that you are ……
@cf it’s now called Dunning-Kruger AI, same tactics just run through GPT so a list of even creepy metaphors can help hide the ignorance.
@cf they either ran off, got quiet because they learned, and/or got rif'd.
@cf You hit the nail on the head! That is why many people are retiring in their early sixties. They can't take the management and work environment any longer.
Yup.. Knowledge isn't rewarded at Elevance. The ability to kiss a** and to be very assertive and confident in your ability to state things is rewarded. There is something called the Dunning-Kruger effect, "ignorant people fail to recognize their own ignorance" but Elevance has taken it to a new level, there is no accountability for being wrong if you can scapegoat and blame someone else. The few people who actually know how things work have been run off or just got tired of fighting to be heard.
@b6 I guess that goes to show what education is all about - ALL SHOW, NO GO. (kind of like a 1980's era Camaro.
MBA programs teach students that sounding confident is of more value than identifying facts and using logic.