Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Nothing Wrong With Shooting...


...As long as the right people get shot.

Got an invite last Friday afternoon for a mandatory, all-staff meeting first thing Monday morning. Last minute... mandatory... all staff... those are never good.

It wasn't about layoffs, but it was a re-org, though the re-org doesn't make much sense. They've all but dismantled the UE group and no one's telling us why.

It seems like no one really thought through all the details. When our (now unhappy) ID's asked about the new structure, they were told it was done to make their lives better, yet no one asked them for input.

What's really behind the re-org? Why can't we hear the whole story? Are we not adults?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sending out long-distance hugs. After all our experience, workplace idiocy should never be a surprise to us, but it always is anyways. And "doing internal communication right" is such a rare thing, I always gasp in delight when I read about it somewhere. Chin up, noots.

Steve Portigal said...

Sorry to see this post, because of the stress and uncertainty that is bound to be associated with corporate stuff like this. I hope you and everyone hangs in there and then makes sure to keep moving forward with everything they're good at, wherever it'll be best supported.

You guys have impressed me with what you've built over the past few years, so this is a bummer man.