This episode is dedicated to my former coworkers, who are living the ultimate corporate bullshit scenario. I talk about what they are going through and how once again, horrible leadership is at the heart of their stress and unhappiness.
In 2020 I published a book about a really horrible time that I and hundreds of my colleagues endured at a big company (which I no longer work for, thank baby Jesus).
The book is called "Where The Hell Is My Bacon?" but it should have been called "Where The Hell Is My Good Leadership?" Because that's what it was really about. Shitty leaders.
Those were the hardest years I have endured in my corporate life and I couldn't imagine anything worse. And I'm sure most of my coworkers felt the same.
But things did get worse for them.
🤔 Maybe I should write another book. Perhaps it should be called "Where The F#CK is Your Compassion?"
(Open to other titles, DM me your suggestions.)
Back in the bacon days, it was only the fear of layoffs. Now people are actually getting fired. For reasons that are frankly embarrassing for a company that has long claimed to put it$ employee$ fir$t.
Maybe some deserve it. Most of them do not. And no one deserves to be blindsided or fired for truly ridiculous sh*t. 👎🏽
Additionally, these folks are also being mandated back to work part-time after the former president told them "Yes! Work from home!" and made a promise (how much do we miss her, eh?).
Some of them have moved out of state. You know...taking advantage of that "employee engagement" thing that they were told was important. That's a looooong commute. 🚗
I have had so many people tell me that this bad news is being delivered with seeming callousness.
I know that sometimes hard decisions have to be made. I get it. But, as Walter Mitty said, "You don't have to be a dick."