What's worse then getting slapped in the face? . . . . Waiting to get slapped in the face.
There's VERY strong signs that a reorganization with possible layoffs are on the horizon. Mumbles about July are in the air & everyone is working at 40% because why be at 100% when there's a chance you're project could be canceled or you're not going to be around to finish it. Any info out there?
I'm completely swamped now since there are less people in my department and am working more than I ever have, putting in extra hours. I don't think I really know how to only work 40% at my job. My division is extremely hard working and pretty much every group I deal with in my portion of the work all seem really busy and hard working as well.
Since RD is in charge, would this then be defined as getting D--k Slapped?
and the response is... crickets y'all got nuthin' because you know it's true. Hide your shame fools and accept your demise.
Kids still play with traditional toys. Unfortunately Mattel makes cost reduced garbage toys that do not live up to the perceived value that the bozos in marketing aspire to. I dare anyone on this board to contradict what I'm saying and show me something of quality mattel has produced in the past 5 years that was remotely of quality.
Could the problem be that children simply are not playing with trational toys as much? Mattel is oversized and ancient, with too much legacy infrastructure, processes, skill sets, and mind sets, all frantically creating largely irrelevant experiences.
The real tragedy here is that our all new toy-experience-free management team has no idea how great this place used to be. They think we are a bunch of idiots who have been bumbling along like this forever and we are the cause of it. In truth, we were the best and brightest up to about year 2000 when our steady decline started. PC replaced passion and the bean counters and Dr. Snore gained power. Mattel forgot about kids, the only group that mattered we're shareholders. It's hard
for innovation to survive, much less thrive, in an environment where ridiculous margins and "analysis paralysis" cripple the creative process. Given another decade and lots of cash, Mattel could possibly recover. But everyone there knows bankruptcy and/or a sell-off will take place long before that happens. That's why coming to work and smiling all day gets harder every week. Anyone who is not spending half their workday looking for another job is delusional. There's your 40 percent efficiency.
https://youtu.be/Cf_qfX9cKsQ
What do you mean people are working 40%? 40% of what? You mean they only work 3 hours a day or only are giving 40% effort into their work? Or maybe your suggesting they’re only completing 40% of their work?
If you want to be real about it, people were already working at 40%, and this point, this place is just barely crawling along.
More fake news... Zzzzzzzzz