Has anyone ever done this? Worked at a company that is obviously failing and going out of business??
Right now, I've been at this company for a year and half. We hit the iceberg about a year ago, and everyone knows it. This is a corporation, publicly held, and at one time was a dominant force in it's industry. There was a time this company had nowhere to go but up. I can't give out a lot of details, because I dont want to get fired for this post. But lets just say nearly all the talent in the entire company that was here when I was hired is now gone.
In the last 6 months, everyone good has been pulled from our company to another one, and a few other companies where people have gone. I've recieved two job offers from people who worked with me here, but now have moved on. I'm considering taking one of them right now.
I have never seen this kind of insanity. People here simply don't care. Remember office space? The things Peter did in that movie happens here with several people every day. We have no review process anymore. People who once performed jobs for a team, stay here and do nothing when the team dissolves. People are fired or laid off only when the very distant parent company checks up on us. Seriously, there are people who literally do nothing here. Their entire job is to answer questions about what they used to do, if needed.
People who are managers play golf sometimes for more than 1/2 a day. Are they big important executives? No, that would be expected. These are middle managers and other 4th teir type managment even participating in this. People take the company cards and max them out on stupid things. People exploit this company to eat up the rest of the profits.
If you talk to anyone in the company, nobody has hope. Everybody laughs and says "I'm working here until that final day comes when they close the doors". It will likely be in less than a year.
We have people that could do things to save it, but its too late. So its become a running joke. "Are we ever going to do.... " and the answer is "we would if it made a difference". I have never seen attitudes like this in my whole life.
We have software reaching the end of it's lifecycle. When asked about it, we tell people "The team that built is gone. We are going to run the software as long as we can". When the software fails to function, we stop using it.
Yes, you read that right. If it takes longer than a day to fix something, it is abandoned. I counted today, and this has happened 8 times in the last 6 months. Things written in visual basic are abandoned as we have no VB programmers. I am in the process of learning it, just so I can fix these and get them back on track.
But Its amazing. People screw around all day. They dont care about ROI, or anything like it. Things are only done as political favors, or to avoid firing. Our parent company is very distant, as I said. About every 2 months they do a walk through, and stuff happens then. A grip of people get fired, and then its back to normal. Stats are fudged, and things are propped up just enough to keep them in the dark.
This is crazy!!!! Has anyone worked at a place like this?
Right now, I've been at this company for a year and half. We hit the iceberg about a year ago, and everyone knows it. This is a corporation, publicly held, and at one time was a dominant force in it's industry. There was a time this company had nowhere to go but up. I can't give out a lot of details, because I dont want to get fired for this post. But lets just say nearly all the talent in the entire company that was here when I was hired is now gone.
In the last 6 months, everyone good has been pulled from our company to another one, and a few other companies where people have gone. I've recieved two job offers from people who worked with me here, but now have moved on. I'm considering taking one of them right now.
I have never seen this kind of insanity. People here simply don't care. Remember office space? The things Peter did in that movie happens here with several people every day. We have no review process anymore. People who once performed jobs for a team, stay here and do nothing when the team dissolves. People are fired or laid off only when the very distant parent company checks up on us. Seriously, there are people who literally do nothing here. Their entire job is to answer questions about what they used to do, if needed.
People who are managers play golf sometimes for more than 1/2 a day. Are they big important executives? No, that would be expected. These are middle managers and other 4th teir type managment even participating in this. People take the company cards and max them out on stupid things. People exploit this company to eat up the rest of the profits.
If you talk to anyone in the company, nobody has hope. Everybody laughs and says "I'm working here until that final day comes when they close the doors". It will likely be in less than a year.
We have people that could do things to save it, but its too late. So its become a running joke. "Are we ever going to do.... " and the answer is "we would if it made a difference". I have never seen attitudes like this in my whole life.
We have software reaching the end of it's lifecycle. When asked about it, we tell people "The team that built is gone. We are going to run the software as long as we can". When the software fails to function, we stop using it.
Yes, you read that right. If it takes longer than a day to fix something, it is abandoned. I counted today, and this has happened 8 times in the last 6 months. Things written in visual basic are abandoned as we have no VB programmers. I am in the process of learning it, just so I can fix these and get them back on track.
But Its amazing. People screw around all day. They dont care about ROI, or anything like it. Things are only done as political favors, or to avoid firing. Our parent company is very distant, as I said. About every 2 months they do a walk through, and stuff happens then. A grip of people get fired, and then its back to normal. Stats are fudged, and things are propped up just enough to keep them in the dark.
This is crazy!!!! Has anyone worked at a place like this?