I don’t agree with it but I can understand the logic of layoffs and what they want to do with the company with a lesser workforce. What I can’t understand is why, other than a few scapegoats, the managerial structure wasn’t really touched the layoffs. Less workers more managers, sound like a recipe for success.
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Scapegoating. Theyve done it for years.
If someone has a mgr title, but soon found themselves with unfamiliar company, they manufacture a crises and terminate said mgr. Problem solved. Fatter bonus.
Scapegoats is correct they throw lower management under the bus to make excuse for bad upper management decisions and losers that don’t do the job that have buddy buddy system still in effect
Because if they cut the management staff anymore the superintendents and executives will be the myo’s and mto’s. Assuming you’re at a location that has 24/7 coverage and 12 hour shifts for their managers, you can only cut so much. In perfect scenario you have 5 people. This allows 2 day shift managers, 2 on nights, and one swing covering off days and vacations. Only one manager on duty at a time. In a lot of locations they have less than four managers, so people are working everyday and quitting. This doesn’t count the directors and other senior managers that aren’t in the shift wheel. This is just the Lower level guys interacting with the crews. Not all locations do shift work like that. Depending on the traffic, there may not be a manager there at all. You can google shift work schedules and see the different types of schedules and the number of people required to do it. UP isn’t staffed to that level for any of them. There is a reason all the managers are on salary with no overtime. I wouldn’t be jealous of the managers. They are hating life more than anyone. Most of the good ones are long gone.
Because management made the decision who to lay off. I don’t understand that! The fat still remains.
Maybe because nonagreement has had 4 rounds of layoffs since 2015 and we have nearly 20% fewer managers than we did since then.