Bad Management Decision at the Workplace: Post yours too

[La Lioness Priyanka]

We recruited a bunch of new people. Most of them speak English incorrectly. I dont mean with accents, i mean incorrectly.


Ex: Mine's is an allergy.


Its a customer service position dealing with some pretty sophisticated clients.

:eyes:

[SacredCow]

1. At my last job....

Many of the employees lived in St. Bernard Parish, which was completely destroyed during Katrina. Everybody that lived there lost everything.

The good: Corporate headquarters created an account of donations from the offices around the world to help these people.

The bad: The local office was in charge of distributing the money to those who needed it the most. The vast majority of that money went to other things (fixing the company cars that were damaged, etc...).

The ugly: The one person I know of who got some of that money didn't lose a home (she was renting a furnished apartment). Her claim was that her clothes stunk so she needed a new wardrobe. Management awarded her $20,000 dollars. Oh, and did I mention that she was having an affair with the regional vice president at the time?

[Connonym]

2. That goes beyond bad decisions to being criminal

how awful

[La Lioness Priyanka]

3. agreed

[SacredCow]

8. Oh, that's just ONE story about that place....

Probably not even the worst one I could tell.

SO glad to not work there anymore! I've made it a personal goal to help my former co-workers there find other employers, too.

[underpants]

4. No comment

I could comment but that would take the rest of the day and I have appointments.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

5. funny.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

6. We've hired English TEACHERS here who can barely speak it.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

7. why? there are hundreds on english phd students that i know of who are jobless

why?

[Gidney N Cloyd]

10. Some of them WERE PhDs.

[MissMillie]

9. here they assign secretaries to support faculty without

knowing what the faculty will be doing during the year (when they'll be teaching, what classes, how many sections of each class, when they'll be writing, etc.)

All of my faculty teach at the same time, and all of them teach logistically burdensome courses. Two of the 3 I will support are "Course Heads" which means I'm in charge not just of organizing things for the faculty, but for the entire course.

I'm doing absolutely nothing this fall. Literally.

I'll be pulling my hair out of my head by the end of February.

[NewJeffCT]

11. I once worked for a very large company

and the son-in-law of the CEO was made a 2nd Vice President right out of grad school, while his daughter was named head of one of the lines of business.

I was in a few meetings with the son-in-law and it just made me shake my head because everybody just bent over backwards to accommodate him, even though he barely knew what he was talking about...

The guy that was the CEO was well known for basically being an a-hole, though. Not long after he was named CEO and moved from (I think) Texas to suburban western Massachusetts, he supposedly demanded that he be allowed to have a helipad in his backyard. The town balked at that idea and he basically went into the next town meeting and screamed at them, "Don't you know who I am?" Supposedly, one town resident responded by saying, "yeah, you're the guy without the helipad." (I've heard that story from quite a few people, including those who did not work at this company)

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

12. I could write a novel.

Hiring people who don't have any of the qualifications that the job requires the person to have.


I love my job :)

[cwydro]

13. I could not even begin

to list the bad management decisions at my last job.

[flvegan]

14. At an old employer: 4 licenses for 125 users (software)

Web-based image scan/tag/view system. 125 users that all need access to it, all day. The firm buys 4 licenses, meaning that at any given time, only 4 people can be using the system.

[grace0418]

15. Too many to list. Multiple bad decisions every day. How about the most recent?

Lay off several art directors (you know, the people who actually design the stuff) but promote two additional people to be our bosses who couldn't manage their way out of a bathroom. The workload doesn't change though, in fact it gets heavier. With fewer people to do it, and three (yes, three, kinda like Office Space) managers contradicting each other constantly and micromanaging each project so it takes 20x longer. Then, at the weekly staff meeting, acknowledge that you know people are really unhappy but tell them they just have to *STOP* being unhappy because it's "bumming you out." Don't offer any solutions though, just demand that we stop being unhappy. Because naturally there is no *reason* for us all to be miserable, we're just ungrateful sour-pusses.

:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

I'll stop being unhappy the day I give my notice at this fucking job.