There are SO MANY managers - feels like more than there are workers. It doesn't make any sense. Not to mention the wednesday coach. It has to be nepotism? I can't make sense of it. It's impossible to get ahead when no one can agree on what they want.
Definitely doesn't feel progressive or very innovative.
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Top heavy management means less to do the actual work that leads to a quality job. I'm pretty sure all our recalls lately support this.
Our facility has multiple managers basically doing the job of one. Since the staff has been cut down to a third of what it used to be why are they still there?
It's like a Beach Boy song: "2 managers for every GSR!"
Most of the employees are in India, Mexico or Brazil.
For every GSR laid off, an LL gets HIS wings.
Reading a HBR article, one of the chief differences between American engineering leadership vs. other companies (Japanese) is that they actually stop engineering. Removed from process, it is easy to spout ideals when so removed from archaic legacy tools still in existence.
it's the Agile industrial complex that president Eisenhower warned us about
Stop talking about this. This is not the type of topic that should be discussed. Just like vacsine survival of young athletes...you just dont go there.
I had two managers by the time I was cut.
It's a way to clean house. Bring new, cheaper managers in with no competence, but the same R&R's as existing, more expensive managers. In the next wave, tell the older, expensive managers their jobs are redundant and fire them.
https://humoroutcasts.com/2019/due-to-cutbacks-dave-was-let-go/
Thats the Ford way. Every 10 years or so. They go promote crazy, promote a ton of people that should not have been promoted, then figure out like you mentioned here, we have more management then workers. Then they buyout ton of management. I seen it to many times over my career. Have supervisors that have 1-2 people under them. Have managers with little to no people under them.
Yep, I'm an LL6 and volunteered to be put on the list 2 months ago when I heard rumours. Was told there were not going to be layoffs, then they let 2 of my team members go but kept supervisor/management level as is.
Compared to our competitors, we have 59% top many salary employees and 60% too many ‘executives.”