Corporate Tips

Enterprise hires in numbers. That's for sure

Problem is that that they hire so many people to do the same job just like the manufacturers that make the cars they rent/sell/lease. Especially in IT.

Too many chiefs not enough indians.

Most are middle aged women who manage by appear to be managing effectively because they have created the chaos they appear to be managing. Many have no idea of the scope of the processes they are managing. OR....The real talent of their "underlings". MOst women there hate each other more than anything.

None (middle-aged female managers) that I worked with ever backed their folks up. NEVER. Sorry to make that generalization, but it kind of holds true.

I will refrain from using names. BUT.....Most folks from IT would absolutely drown in the real world. Especially the managers.

Speak up in a meeting and you're a dissenter. Question a process and you're a dissenter. Made me sick

However, if you want to succeed at corporate ask your manager about their kids and make like you really give a frog's fat a_ _ about them. Kiss alot of a_ _ and make sure and schedule alot of meetings. Not meetings that anything gets done in. Just be the "golden boy/girl" you can be.

Interesting thoughts for sure. I worked at CCP in IT for 8 years before I did what I felt was right which was to bring attention to HR exactly what you refer to in your post, middle-aged female managers. One particularly inept, played favorites, called people names, swore at them, etc. The practices and treatment of people is an aberration. If building 2 execs knew what happens daily they wouldn't believe it. Founding values? Forget it, what a joke.

But those middle-aged females are a powerful group. All one has to do is make one of them look bad, even when you are in the right you quickly become the proud owner of a "ICN" a.k.a. an immediate corrective action document that lays out issues that needed to be addressed or face immediate termination. Then you can sit in a room and be pressured to leave in under 24 hours or "get up and leave right now if you want to" having no knowledge about any issues concerning bad performance. Then you get to realize that the only outcome of the "one on one" that day is agreeing to "resign". You get all of that during the 30 minute lecture and a pleasant parting shot after 8 years of dedicated service to this company "and if you think I have been on you already, wait until Monday". Well, that is a threat but again, most people in IT there don't believe execs know what is going on.

Was it all for the good.. Yes! Best thing that could have happened. Enterprise IT's practices will and have come to the attention of those that can bring to bear those that should receive legal action against them, especially those who's cavalier and casual approach to people's careers is shocking. In the mean time just remember, what goes around comes around…and it’s coming.