Mine is a lying POS. Zero trust. I know many are good but this one lies about everything. He's even lying about cuts and downplaying the whole thing even though all of us are receiving communication just like everybody else and my whole team is here on layoffs.com daily. Do you trust your manager?
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The company is going to the toilet because Comcast rewards toxic leaders and gets rid of the good ones. Catches up.
Last layoff, I knew a guy who acted like your boss. He acted like he already had an “in” and an office at HQ. He eventually got his job back at a state level after reapplying. But we all knew he was bluffing prior to then. He was hired back by an EVP who just rehired his whole team back in place no matter how incompetent any were. He was cocky and pretended to have an in when really we all realized he didn’t know his fate like anyone else until he was hired back into a job AFTER reapplying.
The irony of my time at Comcast is that some of my most toxic bosses were also the most politically powerful. They got me promoted, gave me exposure to senior leadership, and put me on high-visibility projects. They knew how to play the corporate game. Then I finally had a genuinely good boss who didn’t play those games, and my role was eliminated.
It’s made me realize that being a good leader and being politically effective aren’t always the same thing. The best leaders know how to do both lead with integrity while building influence, advocating for their people, and protecting their teams
That’s the moral of my story here. The end.
Thankfully I actually have a good direct boss for the first time in a long time, but I also know of very many others that are absolutely terrible.
My manager has a second business and another source of income. He just shows up, collects updates in a bossy manner, and leaves. But the funniest part is watching him around his own boss—he simply follows orders without having a voice of his own. The irony is so entertaining! 😂
I trusted my manager. Best manager I’ve had in my career by far. Owned what we were doing, didn’t take any bullsh-t from us or anyone we worked with, held us accountable, empowered us. Only person I know in my vicinity let go, so there’s that.
@a3 Get your head out of the sand. Most of us are dealing with terrible leadership. Glad that hasn’t been your experience. Lucky you.
@a3 i can tell you that i am a mgr and i can tell you that i am clueless.
Having made it through the last couple re-orgs, I do think it’s important to validate that it’s completely possible that your immediate leadership doesn’t know. Our’s were not alerted until minutes before it happened, and it was only my skip-level bosses who had known for an extended period of time.
I’ve had a few untrustworthy leaders here, but feel really lucky to have a wildly positive relationship with my current boss. And while I feel like we’ve both worked really hard to establish a cohesiveness with each other, but I don’t know that I would expect them to potentially run their mouth if they made the commitment to stay quiet.
Honestly, it kind of sounds like you might be a di-k. I don’t know that you sound like the kind of person. I would risk speaking off the record to if I were your boss.