05-25-2016, 07:03 AM
(05-25-2016, 02:19 AM)Bad Dog Wrote: Same newsletter:
Two supervisory positions listed.
Two Lead engineering positions listed.
Seven engineering positions listed.
Out of about 80, total. 12.5% casualties in a month...
Direct quote from newsletter:
"At this point we are holding off on the (staff) expansion, as we currently have plenty of open seats to fill for current staff, and all open positions. We are also focusing on what we can do to increase our efficiency within our team like new tools. Efforts like this will allow us to provide world-class service to our customers going forward."
Policy #4) Working with your peers will be evaluated.
Policy #5) Punctuality and attendance will be evaluated.
Someone is running your company like a fast-food chain, a bad model of management when one has educated professionals. Fast-food chains can get away with a high rate of employee turnover because employees are unspecialized and easily trained. It's not so easy to train an engineer. Do you want to think that anything is any better in accounting or marketing?
One does not get world-class service from people treated like dirt. One at best gets scared, servile staff... that is not consistent with engineers. Add to that, fear brings out the worst in people. It does not promote innovation.
As Galen puts it, and I rarely agree with him, your company is in a death spiral.
The best that can happen for someone there is that the Reign of Terror ends with the tyrannical boss fired, and those still there have jobs in which the highest order of business is to not step on any toes. That's one way to go into decline. If you are old enough, you might stick around until retirement -- if you can't get suitable work elsewhere and can't start a business.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.