The culture of fear and favoritism has completely taken over. If you are liked by your manager, you can do whatever you want (or do nothing at all, to be more precise) and you'll be safe. If you're not, you're constantly bullied, threatened with being terminated for ridiculous things, and expected to do twice as much as is your job. This is what happens when incompetent people get promoted over competent ones.
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I left T after the DEI hire they replaced my former boss with was incompetent and treated ppl horribly. She bullied several 25+ yr employees who were high performers and put them at the top of the surplus list bc HR doesn’t vet the integrity of these lists. She inherited a high-performing, close knit team and just sh!t all over it. I left the T for a smaller, less disfunctional company to higher pay and no worries of that type of behavior going unnoticed. In less than 2 yrs, I’ve been promoted twice. I’m almost making double what T insisted was fair pay for my experience and education.
So become a steward and you get all the under the table deals to benefit yourself.
"This is what happens when you are bitter because other more qualified people are promoted over you. Maybe it's you?"
I was thinking the same thing. When you think everyone around you is an ***hole, maybe it's you.
“ I am guessing the OP is actually a manager.”
Ah , another union slug with a GED heard from
RTO and you’re good to go.
I am guessing the OP is actually a manager. Because they said they were threatened with termination. It takes a lot to fire represented employees. My second guess is they are mad because they have to RTO, but some else they know doesn’t have to follow the same rules.
How many years of service did it take for you to realize this?
“I have no fear because I am in mobility. We actually carry the company, including the deadbeats in legacy. You're welcome.”
Clueless, legacy wireline is the backbone of mobility which, is only wireless from devices to the cell towers then hits the legacy network. It still boggles my mind how clueless some mobility and other employees are about how it works.
Don’t worry, most AT&T managers will be fired soon. Many incompetent with the few competent folks included. See Ya
I have no fear because I am in mobility. We actually carry the company, including the deadbeats in legacy. You're welcome.
HUGE drops are coming .. the dark cloud of more layoffs .. to balance the sheet of pi-s poor purchases of Randal boy and his buddy Stinky Winky. As they laugh all the way to bank
This is what happens when you are bitter because other more qualified people are promoted over you. Maybe it's you?
So true for Illinois Design, Construction, and CFO. Nothing ever changes.
Psychopath in the C-Suite may be based on the Stank
That has been the case at literally every job I've ever worked at.
Hey folks, it's the SBC way; like a cancer that consumes everything in its path.
I saw this on a blog awhile back and had to save it because it's so true...
"A dispiriting thing I have learned over time is that a great deal of "success" comes not from what we normally consider to be "talent" (very broadly defined)," "luck," or "hard work," but rather a relentless shamelessness, an ability to be dishonest and ruthless at such a level that is actually unfathomable to normal people. It is a superpower.
A system which greatly rewards sociopathy is not such a great system, especially as that success grants those sociopaths even more power.
We've long celebrated the "ruthless" businessman without giving much thought to what that ruthlessness means in practice.
The top is filled with these guys, convinced of their superiority in all things. "
In my experience, when your boss "likes" you, it means you just get extra work, extra stress, and little extra compensation if you are at or beyond the mid point of your pay band..
" If you are liked by your manager, you can do whatever you want (or do nothing at all, to be more precise)..."
Nah.
My experience as a personnel manager is that I "like" people that do what they are supposed to, in the timeline they committed to, with minimal supervision. I.E. they make my job easier.
You probably perceive that you're not "liked" because you are not at all like the person described above.
The results of DEI
I disagree. No one is “safe”, not even your manager. It isn’t a matter of if you get laid off around here. It’s a matter of when.
Agree. There are quite a few clueless people all around the place.