Its amazing to see how some inept leadership can sink a company and its moral. This is a R&D tech "startup" and we have around 70 employees total. Ill try to do a TLDR of the situation I am in/observing. :

Pre Covid:Great motivation, clear goals, deadlines and appreciation from the top down on all the work we do. Felt like upper management +c-suite was pushing both company and employees goals. Most people enjoyed the work they did and the company they worked for. CEO would always make it a point to discuss what the goal for our investors/company is and how our work impacted it. Over the last 8 years we won multiple best place to work awards and the retention rate reflected it.

During Covid:Just as covid hit, we finished a round of fundraising for our next phase of business development, one of the stipulations was a change over in management to reflect better to those who have more skin in the game at this point. Basically any position above VP has been fired and they have been replacing those rolls. It took them 12 months to fill the essential roles, in the mean time everyone sat around rotting and collecting a paycheck. I was lucky to be working on a customers project that kept me busy through all of covid but I was the exception not the rule.

"Post Covid"At this point there has been no effort into brining the workforce back, we probably have ~50 percent of our workforce abusing the covid policies and doing next to no work from home. The rest are back in the office working as if covid never happened, including myself. Goals/Leadership are non existent, no one knows what they should be doing and its just a huge game of looking busy at this point. This has been going on for 8 months or so, and now they are letting people know that raises will probably not happen this year. At this point its been proven that half of our workforce isnt needed and that they are leaching off those who work. They wont do anything about people sitting at home collecting paychecks and everyone who is back at the office is rightfully pissed off.

We have had non stop resignations over the last few weeks of mission critical people, these are principal scientists who created the very science that we are using. Now management is just saying "No replacement will be hired, we will shift all their work around to other people so the momentum can keep going". Little do they know is that the majority of the people who are left that returned to the office are looking for other work at this point. Management is running around in circles wondering why moral is crap and resignations are occurring left and right. This doesnt even cover the covid hysterics that were implemented but that can be its own thread. I work in a department that is sheltered from most of the drama but at this point I am also looking for my out too. It sucks because this job was amazing 2 short years ago and now its absolute hell if you are someone who wants to work with a purpose.

The real TLDR is that the fish rots from the head down. /end diary

Yep -it's a bitch when that happens. I have seen it time and time again and guess what? The board of directors/ c-suite who made the decision to change things up so dramatically will take no responsibility and will instead sit there thinking "man, I can't believe what COVID did to this company. Lazy employees ruined our company." Meanwhile, the investment funds will lose more and more of their valuation and take a hit on the books as well. By the time the people at the top leave, the company will be a bare shell of it's former self. Soon the people at the top will move to another organization and fuk it up too. Ridiculous

Can confirm, I'm in a similar situation. We hired a new managing partner who works remotely (not even in the office lol) who everyone absolutely hates. Very little motivation. Doesn't help that my income is largely driven by large trials (lawyerbrah) and half the fukking courts are shut down.

This is another thing that tends to happen. Higher quality people don't want to stick around on a sinking ship with no future, and rather go for other options and opportunities because they can. Lower quality people tend to want to stick around and haul it out for as long as they can

Came in expecting a sopranos thread

Yep. Been there, seen it happen, jumped shipped. Made me appreciate the value of competent leadership.

Yup they are already starting the hot potato game of shifting blames, some on the lazy people and previous execs. I think the writing is on the wall with this one.
The latter part would have me up ym bosses ass so hard, I dont know how I would fair in something like law especially during covid.Once the principal scientists started to fold I think the writing is on the wall. They are usually privy to the pipeline and having a bunch of them up and quit is really telling.yessir, hope it worked out for you. I am learning how great of a CEO the last guy was.

Biden's America

Good luck on your job search OP, there are at least plenty of opportunities out there for you to get out of that trap and start fresh

you dont say?

Texas Longhorns football team comes to mind. Our issue is our boosters... but leadership has never shut them the fuk up, they're too rich.
Consistently top 5 best recruits, consistently terrible. USC, Georgia (not this year), Hurricanes, several of them I guess.
A few places I've worked too before management.

I mean if it is making them money then I understand why they keep on smashing the same button.Yup already got the resume updated just need to sit down and send it out places. Atleast we can get the hell out of NJ finally.

Never trust a tech company that has more than 1 mba for every 10 engineers.

I have always chosen engineers in Ops roles too. My bias probably, and I have known very stupid MBA holders. I tend to integrate quality with everything and engineering with too much, I'll figure that out

We are heavy in the engineering field so I would gander at atleast 50% of the company holding atleast one engineering degrees. Sometimes it helps out, other times it holds them(us) back.
Used to be that way, all of the new hires have been an alphabet soup of useless characters after their names.



Also just found out another person put their 2 weeks in, not sure who but its apparently got management spooked.

lol director put his 2 weeks in, he was handling the information handoff between new and old management. I think my mind is made up, gonna look elsewhere at this point.

Leadership does matter more than skills for most organizations.

lol

it cracks me up they dont do anything

they can't even do the jobs of people under them, they tell you to do something they dont even do theirsevles.

fkn worthless, with no managers the work still gets done

update: got word that a big layoff is happening, I am making it through but that the company is going to be 1/3 the size it is now. Good news is that my budget frees up and I get a nice retention bonus+raise in the process. The bad, is that I am seeing many people I worked with over the years get **** canned, I know its just business but I am losing some of my favorite coworkers in the process. Hasn't happened yet but it will after thanksgiving.

Stay safe bro

Why? Can't you read?? He's not getting fired.. dumb fk

It was a joke you fukin dweeb. Don’t ever respond to one of my posts again u ****göt.

It amazes me how many institutions lack civilized leadership.

No doubt what is going on now is unsustainable and companies are going to figure out a better way to operate. Suddenly these work from home people are going to be SOL.What happened at my last job. New boss fired a guy and I was one of the one's who left.