I'm having a bit of a crisis of faith... My current employer recently hired one of my former ePrize colleagues. He's finally in a position that he wanted to be in at ePrize for years but never managed to get into.
I worked with this person for years. When he came in, he pretty much formed an entire department by himself. After that, he was put under someone from a completely different department with the typical excuse that he was a good "worker" but not a "leader". Despite this major slight, he kept on. After a while, he wanted to move to project management (why I'll never know).
At this time I was having one of those meetings I've written about before; a lunch with the leadership team. Upon hearing that this guy wanted to make a move from his department to project management one of the big wigs said (with surprising force), "He will NEVER be a project manager here." I never found out the reason for this reaction or prohibition.
Rather than being a PM, he was moved into another fledgeling department. "Either he makes it there or we let him go," came the word. Talk about setting someone up to fail! But, he didn't fail. Instead, he came in and rocked the house.
At another manager's lunch his new boss was beside himself, "I don't know what to do! He's been in my department for six months and he's already far more advanced than [the guy that had been there for over a year]!" As if tha was a problem? To him it was. Better to have two semi-compitent workers than a superstar and a guy with a "good heart" but not much of a head on his shoulders. The superstar might make him feel bad.
That was where it stood when I left there. And now he's at my new place of business, hired in as a PM. So, do I tell him why he was never given this chance before? Or do I just bite my tongue and keep the backstabbing and backroom politics to myself? Perhaps if I knew why there was such a negative reaction to the thought of him being a PM... It's not like it was such a position of prestige. After all, that was the place for cousins and babysitters of The Purple Gang for a while; and the perfect place to put someone if you want them to fail.
Time will tell if I hold my tongue or not, I suppose.
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THIS BEGAN AS A REPRINT OF ANOTHER PERSON'S BLOG. NOW IT'S A COLLECTION OF MEMORIES AND OBSERVATIONS ABOUT A QUICKENLOANS COMPANY.
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My favorite bull crap was the concept of "Slither". Employees are made to believe their company is the only online promo business with big clients. SoftCoin has large clients too. Why during the length of time I worked there this company was never even brought up? Instead a fictious company was made up to give the employees the impression no other company existed. It won't be long before SoftCoin or some other company gets a bigger piece of the pie. People are finding out that online promos are not as difficult as once thought. Monster.com somehow found a way to do their own promos and soon Coca-Cola will realize they can do their own too.
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