A bit of a vent here on good old corporate environments.
Today we got another boss making the team have 3 managers for 4 staff. We also had our first group meeting with the new manager which consisted of only me and another person presenting (1 person is in another time zone and the other on vaca) to the now three managers which turned into each manager trying to “out flex” each other with their comments and trying to micromanage the two of us. The whole thing was a joke turning to the meeting into a three sided conversations for 50 mins of the hour meeting.
It baffles me how inept people can be in corporate leadership roles, I use leadership loosely here. How do people when they get a bit of power they lose their complete sense of reality and not see the bigger picture or what is occuring. It all just becomes about throwing comments out there to increase their precived value to corp to further increase their power at the expense of everyone else and what is actually occuring.
The even sadder part is how these companies think that we the “staff” are in the wrong or entitled or have bad attitudes when we voice our opinions on how our time is being wasted. Or heaven forbid when we voice how overwhelmed we are while they spend their time in non-value meetings and down loading random actions from them to the staff manning the oars.
Where the heck did things go so wrong to the point where thinking that a department so top heavy with managers is exceptable and overloading the passed out oarsman is the new norm. Perhaps the folks in the 1920's had it right when they decided to unionize to protect themselves from exploitation.
But I am sure a fourth manager will fix all of the issues though in our case. Each of us having a personal manager should drive effenecy down the road to get one of the managers an extra raise from their random visibility project. Hopefully…..