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Sep. 18th, 2024 03:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
spryngWell, dayjob sure has been topsy-turvy. Almost two weeks ago now, we were all asked to set aside other plans and meetings to make it to a team meeting that had HR involved. We had about 30min to panic, and it turned out we had every right to panic. :/ One third of the team is going to be reassigned to other departments, where they're "needed." *eyeroll*
For a little history, not even a year ago we brought all of the department trainers under one department so that we could do a better and more efficient job of, well, training. Our CEO was getting miffed because one area was being taught one thing and another area was being taught something else, so customers were hearing different things from different people and getting confused/irate. Centralizing was supposed to help with that. We didn't even get to keep all the department trainers at the time because we were already deemed "too big."
So we got most, not all, and were promised 18 months of grace and we figured things out with a vastly larger and different team.
Not even 12 months later, and we're told we're too big. Instead of talking to anyone on the team, management picked out who they wanted to leave and leadership said where-to. The affected trainers found out maaaybe a few hours before the rest of us. In contrast, when we centralized, every affected trainer got to talk to their manager and ours about it, got to decide whether they'd come over, and got at least some choice in where they'd go if not. They had 3 months to process and decide and were promised they'd get a fair shake after that.
Needless to say, morale has been in the dumps. According to my coworkers in the office, someone is almost always crying and management has shutdown any conversations about it. I'm furious.
Then, this week, I finally got the promotion I'd been working toward. Which feels a bit like spitting in the face of all those who are being moved. I'm still glad for the promotion, but it's very bittersweet. And especially after all this... as another coworker put it, this was maybe a needed reminder that no matter how much your employer touts themselves as Good for Employees and On Your Side, you're just another number at the end of the day. Employment in the good ol US of A is precarious and can always be taken away at the whim of your employer.
Not that I needed anything else to harden my resolve to be done in 2 years...
For a little history, not even a year ago we brought all of the department trainers under one department so that we could do a better and more efficient job of, well, training. Our CEO was getting miffed because one area was being taught one thing and another area was being taught something else, so customers were hearing different things from different people and getting confused/irate. Centralizing was supposed to help with that. We didn't even get to keep all the department trainers at the time because we were already deemed "too big."
So we got most, not all, and were promised 18 months of grace and we figured things out with a vastly larger and different team.
Not even 12 months later, and we're told we're too big. Instead of talking to anyone on the team, management picked out who they wanted to leave and leadership said where-to. The affected trainers found out maaaybe a few hours before the rest of us. In contrast, when we centralized, every affected trainer got to talk to their manager and ours about it, got to decide whether they'd come over, and got at least some choice in where they'd go if not. They had 3 months to process and decide and were promised they'd get a fair shake after that.
Needless to say, morale has been in the dumps. According to my coworkers in the office, someone is almost always crying and management has shutdown any conversations about it. I'm furious.
Then, this week, I finally got the promotion I'd been working toward. Which feels a bit like spitting in the face of all those who are being moved. I'm still glad for the promotion, but it's very bittersweet. And especially after all this... as another coworker put it, this was maybe a needed reminder that no matter how much your employer touts themselves as Good for Employees and On Your Side, you're just another number at the end of the day. Employment in the good ol US of A is precarious and can always be taken away at the whim of your employer.
Not that I needed anything else to harden my resolve to be done in 2 years...
