To be a fly on the wall
So, as I posted recently I accepted a new position at another company. My exit interview was Thursday afternoon. First some background:
When I took the job a year and a half ago I was told that they hired two of us, let's call the other guy Ted. I was also told that Ted and I would be answering to the Network Manager and that there were two other people on the team. Let's call them Frick and Frack. So Ted and I start and the first thing our director did was pull me into the office and tell me that the Network Manager and "an un-named female employee" were both fired the week before.
Instantly Ted and I are blamed and made the enemy of the department (and quite a few outside the department). A year passes but with a soft job market Ted and I put up with a load of crap from Frick and Frack, plus are treated as outcasts by pretty much the rest of the department.
In my annual review I put into writing that I'm not part of the team and am cut of the loop by Frick and Frack. Both my director and VP sign off on my review.
Shortly after they fire the director and our VP tells us that "for the time being" Frick and Frack are in charge. Ted and I are completely cut out of the loop. For example, one afternoon our VP sends a blast email to everyone in the building that the network team will be replacing all the switches in the building over the weekend. This is the first that Ted and I heard of it. We are on the networking team. Frick and Frack babysit the consultant that actually does the work. On Sunday VP sends an atta-boy email to the company praising Frick and Frack for "all their hard work". Monday morning I'm the first one in the building from our group and find that there is no network connectivity to the first floor (which among other things houses the server room). Hours later it is found (by Cisco no less) that the consultant wired the switch stack backwards. Just one example of how screwed up things are.
Ok, so not wanting to burn bridges in my exit interview I give a watered down version of why I'm leaving but tell a little of the above story. The person who gave my interview just started with the company and is flabbergasted by what little I tell her.
The next morning Ted is mad because Frick sniped a help desk ticket that he had worked on and wasn't complete. He's telling me about it and our telecom manager (another "winner") makes a snide remark. This sets off Ted and *he* walks down to HR and spends over an hour with the HR Rep that did my interview going into glorious detail about what's been happening.
Then he went to our VP and told *him* what's been happening. Both times he told them if things didn't change he'd be right out the door with me.
The HR rep (now having two people of a four person team telling the same story about the other two) is going to her VP on Monday to tell her. I would think my VP will have some 'splaining to do. I'd love to be able to see what happens in that meeting and the followup meeting with Frick and Frack.
When I took the job a year and a half ago I was told that they hired two of us, let's call the other guy Ted. I was also told that Ted and I would be answering to the Network Manager and that there were two other people on the team. Let's call them Frick and Frack. So Ted and I start and the first thing our director did was pull me into the office and tell me that the Network Manager and "an un-named female employee" were both fired the week before.
Instantly Ted and I are blamed and made the enemy of the department (and quite a few outside the department). A year passes but with a soft job market Ted and I put up with a load of crap from Frick and Frack, plus are treated as outcasts by pretty much the rest of the department.
In my annual review I put into writing that I'm not part of the team and am cut of the loop by Frick and Frack. Both my director and VP sign off on my review.
Shortly after they fire the director and our VP tells us that "for the time being" Frick and Frack are in charge. Ted and I are completely cut out of the loop. For example, one afternoon our VP sends a blast email to everyone in the building that the network team will be replacing all the switches in the building over the weekend. This is the first that Ted and I heard of it. We are on the networking team. Frick and Frack babysit the consultant that actually does the work. On Sunday VP sends an atta-boy email to the company praising Frick and Frack for "all their hard work". Monday morning I'm the first one in the building from our group and find that there is no network connectivity to the first floor (which among other things houses the server room). Hours later it is found (by Cisco no less) that the consultant wired the switch stack backwards. Just one example of how screwed up things are.
Ok, so not wanting to burn bridges in my exit interview I give a watered down version of why I'm leaving but tell a little of the above story. The person who gave my interview just started with the company and is flabbergasted by what little I tell her.
The next morning Ted is mad because Frick sniped a help desk ticket that he had worked on and wasn't complete. He's telling me about it and our telecom manager (another "winner") makes a snide remark. This sets off Ted and *he* walks down to HR and spends over an hour with the HR Rep that did my interview going into glorious detail about what's been happening.
Then he went to our VP and told *him* what's been happening. Both times he told them if things didn't change he'd be right out the door with me.
The HR rep (now having two people of a four person team telling the same story about the other two) is going to her VP on Monday to tell her. I would think my VP will have some 'splaining to do. I'd love to be able to see what happens in that meeting and the followup meeting with Frick and Frack.