Was proud of the work that I did previously. Was promised many things upon return. Things never worked out. With current work climate, all it did at the end was add stress to my life.
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Why did you decide to come back?
I regret coming back. Low pay difficult work environment, Not worth my time.
Pretty proud when I started. Guess I'd had bought in to the marketing that most had chowed down on back then. I will say that I learned a lot; good bit of it on what not to do and who not to trust.. err maybe that should be who not to have confidence in.
However I do wish I had moved on, especially after the mediocre raises and wage freezes.
The worst of it was our management following some kind of Harvard "business model"; moving our jobs overseas while making us train/mentor those guys . If that wasn't enough, they actually "reverse" outsourced work in here in the US with cheap labor all with the help of DC sponsored Visas. They also allowed our internal bureaucrats to drown our productivity in a mire of rules and policies since they seem too busy to mange.
BTW - EEEC never gets anything right and you end up spending even more time and money trying to get them to do it right or fixing their work.
Biggest nerds I’ve ever known were on the hi-pot list.
If you join young enough, after about six months management will meet and decide if you should be on the ‘hi-pot’ list. This is the workplace equivalent of whether or not you got picked for a fraternity/sorority. If you are lucky enough to get selected then you might as well stick around and ride the gravy train for the rest of your career, because you can do no wrong and will quickly be a VP no matter how incompetent you are. If you didn’t make the cut you should bail out as fast as possible otherwise you might get su-ked into 30 years of indentured servitude where you will not advance no matter what you accomplish on the job.
Emerson was shocking behind the times when I started. I thought that unless they modernize, they would struggle as they did all the engineering the same way they did in 1975.
I was wrong. EEEC has no problem doing everything by hand.
Are used to think that Emerson was the top line engineering company.
After working there for over a decade, I realize that I would only like to work with one or two of my coworkers in a different company.
Emerson has disrespected and deemphasized technical excellence
Yes,I do regret it. I had a better offer in a different city, but didn’t want to move. My earnings and career potential got impacted over a 10 year period. Not to mention the stress the culture added to my life. All I got from working at Emerson was burnout, and depression. Terrible company.
Don’t regret accepting a job offer at EMR but do regret not leaving sooner. A net 10% increase in pay for years FY19-22 was pathetic.
all culture talk, smoke and mirrors. insular and aimless - see stock price and relative to any index...
Not really. I learned a lot while I was there, but was underpaid. Having been out, the culture at Emerson is awful, which made some of my years there really, really bad.
That said, I did learn a lot while I was there and see it for what it was. If I had the chance/job offer again knowing what I know now, I wouldn't work there. I definitely wouldn't work there if I were earlier in my career again because of the bad habits in the culture and it being stuck in the past.
I regret staying here. It’s a dead end that only rewards mediocrity.