In our team, there is a few folks whose technical competence is majorly lacking. They barely know anything but they dress very well and take 2-3 hrs at lunchtime to socialize with others over an extended lunch.... The next thing you know they receive high five from VP! for an extra ordinary job they have stolen from their teammates! Sickening! Good soft skills and communication skills is something but Nike has taken this to a while new level of unlocking a-kisser and relationship-based rather than merit-based system
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Some of us sit in cafeterias because we don’t have desks.
Stop feeding into the mentality that just because we aren’t sitting at a desk we aren’t working.
I think so too. Just like goose chasing dogs, We need a fumigation team, that will go and spray at all the people sitting in cafetarias. And tell them to get back to their desks and “Collab” in their meeting rooms.
Typical for this company.
One of the values is curiosity &accountability. Based on my experiences and observations if you ask too many questions and speak out you get reprimanded.
If you do a bad job you get promoted
Nike in a nutshell.
doing a good job is all about the perception of doing a good job. Don't hate the player...
Everything exists in a balance.
If no one knows your did something, if no evidence exists that you added value to the company, if no one realizes you changed something… did you really do anything?
Good work and self-advocation are both critical skills. You’ll eventually end up without a job if you only have one.
Sure you can lie for a while but Nike reorgs every 2-3 years, their clueless manager will eventually be replaced with one who sees them for how they really are.
I see this all the time at my job. The reality is that is how promotion works. It's sickening. Someone on the team has an idea and nobody cares. However, when the director or CEO repeats that idea, all of a sudden all the "yes" people starts commenting how amazing and brilliant that idea is. Of course it's hard to judge since we can all use the $$$ from a$$kissing. Some of us are just not that desperate.
Ok boomer...
Oh wow! It sounds my team! A bunch of lunch planners who dress swoosh head to toe and match their nail polish with swoosh's color of their shoes.... and they just network during the day and at the end of the day they deliver what they have stolen from others... Dir and Sr Dir send high five and never question how this person without any relevant background got this project done!
Where have you been? Decades long standard
A-s kissing is all this company wants and the young crowd is excellent at it...just don't ask them to actually work