L-3 is leadership, how to describe it? It's like everyone is a captain and this is a sinking ship. Instead of the sailors making calls to save the ship the are taking all the life rafts and saving themselves. There is no love for the company because of all the management being in everyone's àśś instilling the fear of getting writen up or getting fired to make themselves look better. Supervisors pick favorites and give non favorites the odd jobs. Instead of sharing knowledge they keep skills growing in their favorites while the other keep getting left out, which in fact makes them not care, not caring leads to working slower, and working slower makes supervisors more frustrated, which puts more pressure on everyone. What people seem to fail to realize is that everything is micromanaged to the point where employees need to find new ways of getting cut a break that they actually become good at slacking. For example management and supervisors need to not worry about everything. Management worry about your supervisors. Supervisors need to only worry about their people on a project. And people need to only worry about the project. The project will work itself out all the time. But when you have everyone breathing down on the lower employees, employees tend to quit GaF. You need to hire someone trained to train management in ways to make employees WANT to work harder, not force employees to work harder. Anyways enough ranting. What do you people think?
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As a former employee of L-3 in Waco, I agree the management there has been the Good ole boy system. They needed to go a long time ago. As far as new business, the people you had in charge of new business were all the rejects from Greenville!!! Just like a toilet they flushed them down to Waco. I was there in it's best years, then it went to hell. I was laid off not due to poor performance it's because of poor management, poor leadership and saving their own hide. It was great but not anymore.
L-3 as a company used to be a good company to work for until the founder CEO 'L' died and an ex-GE-Jack-Welch-trained bean-counter dipsht took over and a big hedge fund bought a bunch of stock and forced seats on the BOD. Those, my ex-co-workers, are a recipe for long-term disaster for short-term blood-suking. It's like a cancer all across corporate America.
Most of what you need to know about a potential company to work for is if you're starting an interview process, is to go onto a website (do a web search) for your potential company's leadership. If your main executives are somehow linked to GE and some of the BOD comes from hedge funds, AVOID AT ALL COSTS! This information is all available if you're willing to search for it.
The most intelligent response I have read on here today. Completely agree. Ring the bell and ABANDON SHIP!
The writing has on been on the wall at l3 for years the fat lady started singing last September , stop trying to fix that broken down a-- company bail while you can