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At the beginning of the year our supervisor took a different job and instead of finding a new supervisor or promoting one of us, they threw us under another dept and split us between 2 supervisors that don’t know our job. 7 months later and they still aren’t completely trained at all. They can’t jump in and help, they can’t train new people and they don’t communicate with us at all. For example, one of our coworkers took another job in the company. We were told she would be training there but still covering her work. Her last day was last Monday and on Tuesday they send and email saying her last day was yesterday and please cover her work until they can find a replacement. In the past if someone took a new position they would hire a new person right away and train him or her so she would be ready to take on some of the work. Also this girl who took another position said she didn’t have enough work in our dept. We are busting our asses off and she didn’t have enough work? Shouldn’t management be aware of the work load and how it’s distributed?
Yes they should, but it sounds like they've lost the capacity to manage you as people before and can no longer distribute work effectively like like used to. The management in question may be taking advantage of the situation with the new hybrid team by reporting their results differently to their own management (who will have different standards than you). Also less supervisors means less spending on their budget which means saving money.
At the beginning of the year our supervisor took a different job and instead of finding a new supervisor or promoting one of us, they threw us under another dept and split us between 2 supervisors that don’t know our job. 7 months later and they still aren’t completely trained at all. They can’t jump in and help, they can’t train new people and they don’t communicate with us at all. For example, one of our coworkers took another job in the company. We were told she would be training there but still covering her work. Her last day was last Monday and on Tuesday they send and email saying her last day was yesterday and please cover her work until they can find a replacement. In the past if someone took a new position they would hire a new person right away and train him or her so she would be ready to take on some of the work. Also this girl who took another position said she didn’t have enough work in our dept. We are busting our asses off and she didn’t have enough work? Shouldn’t management be aware of the work load and how it’s distributed?
This is what is most likely to happen. Upper management will finally make the decision they have been dragging their feet about which is to close down your department and out-source it. Out-sourcing doesn't always mean it will be done by a company overseas, they will find another local company that does whatever your department's function is that is important to the company and give it to them. When that happens, there will be a layoff, and the only people staying there are going to be these two supervisors.
Upper management has not done anything to fix this, because they have no intention of keeping your department and are using these two supervisors to "babysit" you guys. Sorry about this, but I think you should find another company to work at while you are still employed.
Poor management. We have similar issues at the company I work for. Our company made several acquisitions. No formal written guidelines were ever in place for employees. Our job is very technical. Had a big hiring push a year ago. That coupled with a manager that is not familiar with our industry is a nightmare. Our original manager had been with the company for over 20 years and knew everything. We've been through 9 Managers and 3 Directors since original manager left....each one more clueless than the last
The new model of manager as resource manager manager really does not work for some industries.
It sounds like your company is trying to squeeze out as much off the top of their payroll as possible by shuffling around departments under different existing managers. I've seen this before and it never ends well. I would begin the process of looking for a job at another company.
Upper management is just playing it cheap. . It happens everywhere now unfortunately, Cutting cost to "remain efficient". Because you know: Its really efficient to have one worker do the work of two people or have a boss with no clue whats going on. NOTHING ever bad could come of that.
My company has done the same thing. Wouldn't you know it after 3 year of brainless decision making:. Loss of customers, loss of business, Ridiculous high turnover. 75 percent of our veterans gone and no real training program in place. Recipe for Failure long term. I would say bounce. It won't get any better. Only worse
Hey OP, you may not know it yet but YOU are your number 1 priority. So start lookin elsewhere for yourself.
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