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CEO of my current company pitched partnering with a consultancy to fill our resource needs (can’t hire anyone). During an org wide meeting, he promised that thi
by hysan 4y ago
CEO of my current company pitched partnering with a consultancy to fill our resource needs (can’t hire anyone). During an org wide meeting, he promised that this wasn’t going to result in layoffs. That we needed to work with them so that they could help. Thus ensued 6 weeks of helping them learn our systems and business processes in a process, that in hindsight, felt like knowledge transferring. After that, a bunch of people were laid off without warning and the CEO has still yet to address the org directly.
I have yet to figure out my takeaway from this experience, but it makes me wonder if I prefer incompetence or dishonesty.
- bombcar 4y agoDishonesty you can work around, incompetence is like insanity; you can't plan for it. And above is literally the plot of Office Space.
- hef19898 4y agoUnfortunately you are right, dishonesty is something you can account for. I'll dishonest over incompetent any day of the week. At least dishonest bears less risk of running an org into the ground than incompetent. if it is both, run as fast as possible.
- mywittyname 4y agoComing out and saying there won't be any layoffs is code for, there's going to be layoffs.