The amount of negative changes in the past several years has brought down morale and is impacting my mental health. The department I’m in has changed PTO bidding, supervisors/managers are constantly changing and have no idea what lengths we go through daily to meet our metrics while getting little to no support in trying to grow your career, and no acknowledgment or thanks for taking on stretch assignments. What is the point of trying? I’m constantly ignored while making suggestions on improvements. It feels as though they are making all these changes (worsening of our health insurance plans, taking certain benefit coverages away, changing department PTO processes, little to no pay increase, minimal bonus) to edge employees closer to resigning so they don’t have to provide us severance or unemployment. Defeating to say the least.
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Please understand as a good manager who actually cares for people....I wish I could help my team grow. There is no room for growth. If you go and look at all of the jobs that are available internally, they 're all aligned to other countries. We had a position on my team for a director they hired from outside the company. They added a layer in between us. That new go between layer has no idea what they're doing. I spend my day in meetings about tasks they were asked to complete but can't complete I'm also tasked with documenting everything I do yet not allowed to send it to the new director. I'm pretty sure might the new in between layer is taking credit for everything I do. Micromanaging is at an all time high. Communication is at an all time low. No one at the upper levels is proactive. What they're trying or say they're trying to do makes common sense but then their actions are completely opposite. It's such a joke. The team is crumbling and the id--t executives don't even see it, or maybe they do, and they just don't care. Maybe that's the plan.
Take it from a multi decade veteran of this real life Office Space skit...
Work to never tie your mental health to your job or career. Building resilience in yourself (skills, finances, relationships) is absolutely key.
Corporate life can be financially rewarding but never forget that it's a giant dangerous machine that will ki-l you at any moment and think nothing of your contributions or importance. Extract what you can and always have side gigs and a leg out the door.
That is by design. In word and deed.
I agree!!!!!
@OP agree