Sirwalterraleigh
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Are you originally from Wisconsin or Minnesota?Why would I expect a cease and desist letter...?
Are you originally from Wisconsin or Minnesota?Why would I expect a cease and desist letter...?
Eh, the whole āEverone is a Cast Member thingā is rather stupid. It turns it from a phrase with some meaning to one with no meaning. The credits for a movie or play donāt list everyone involved under Cast.Heās calling the job cuts āemployeesā instead of ācast membersā to help distance him from the people who will lose their jobs. Shrewd business man Iger is!
There it is! Excellent analysis!Disney is just doing what most other smart corporations are doing - they are finally trimming fat in the white collar ranks. The pandemic shone a very bright light on the fact that there are a lot of middle-upper management people who have rather useless, redundant jobs. It became very clear very quickly who actually was responsible for doing the actual work, versus who sat in the office all day, socializing and screwing around online, who's only responsibility was producing occasional reports and making themselves look busy.
Seems like you haven't walked in leadership shoes?Disney is just doing what most other smart corporations are doing - they are finally trimming fat in the white collar ranks. The pandemic shone a very bright light on the fact that there are a lot of middle-upper management people who have rather useless, redundant jobs. It became very clear very quickly who actually was responsible for doing the actual work, versus who sat in the office all day, socializing and screwing around online, who's only responsibility was producing occasional reports and making themselves look busy.
Yes , rinse and repeat , TWDC is not the only one who cleans house every few years.Didn't this also happen back in what was it 2008-11 ? All over again.
What do you do about the bloated salaries of core development groups, like their tech teams? While there is probably significant bloat at the middle management levels, what do you do with senior and principal level engineers?Yes , rinse and repeat , TWDC is not the only one who cleans house every few years.
That's a good question. While no one is irreplaceable, there is a significant amount of tribal knowledge that walks out the door when you let the those types of tech people go, no matter how much documentation you have.What do you do about the bloated salaries of core development groups, like their tech teams? While there is probably significant bloat at the middle management levels, what do you do with senior and principal level engineers?
That would depend on two things. Have they maintained and updated their skillsets to account for emerging technology? And if they have, are the technologies they have chosen directly support the corporate mission? I know one guy who became a genius AWS guru. Too bad his company chose to go down the Azure road. Thanos <snap> time.What do you do about the bloated salaries of core development groups, like their tech teams? While there is probably significant bloat at the middle management levels, what do you do with senior and principal level engineers?
Highly technical roles get paid appropriately .What do you do about the bloated salaries of core development groups, like their tech teams? While there is probably significant bloat at the middle management levels, what do you do with senior and principal level engineers?
Highly technical roles get paid appropriately .
Eh, the whole āEverone is a Cast Member thingā is rather stupid. It turns it from a phrase with some meaning to one with no meaning. The credits for a movie or play donāt list everyone involved under Cast.
Seems like you haven't walked in leadership shoes?
Corporate game of what you described is what I did. High stress, hours , demanding deadlines , eating quickly at your desk because the markets don't close until 4pm , sacrificing time away from family , at times week long meetings on West Coast then redeye back to NorthEast then straight to office for presentations. Your description of socializing , online etc etc seem like when the rat is away the mice will play. But bonus time was my favorite time of the year!That's such an...odd response to what I said. And incorrect, as I spent over a decade playing the corporate game, so I know of what I speak. In fact, I can't imagine anyone who works at a corporation for any length of time on either side of the ladder who doesn't know these things to be true, even if they won't admit it because they have one of these jobs we are talking about.
There is also a stark difference In the past decade and a half versus the last economic downturn. For one, companies like Disney can't cut the lower level employees any more - they have reduced staffing so much in this time, that they are already running on skeleton crews and the bare minimum to keep things operating from the people who actually produce the work and keep companies in motion.
Then you have the fact that the pandemic and work from home shone a huge bright spotlight on who does what at companies. It became very clear who is actually responsible for what, and who is actually necessary to keep things running and who is not. And what it exposed is what most people already knew - a lot of extreme bloat in middle/middle-upper management/consulting positions that ultimately are overpaid for the tangible benefits they actually bring the company.
These two things together are why all these corporations are making cuts where they are - they can't cut any more below the line without clients/customers revolting, and they realized they don't need a dozen levels of people reporting on people reporting on people reporting, particularly "teams" of people who share what should really only be one actual job, and so on.
This is just one small facet of the massive shift happening right now in the American work force. We are in the middle of a reckoning, and very few are actually safe. Workers on the lower end are demanding to be paid fairly for their work, and corporations on the higher end are finally starting to question why there are so much redundancy in their ranks. Of course, the highest levels are not going to give anything up, CEOs and BOD's are going to...CEO and BOD...but everyone else in corporate land is starting to be judged on the actual value they bring, versus the perceived value of the positions that have protected them up until no
Well if heās still the Six Million Dollar manā¦then definitelyI wonder if Jonathan Majors will now be part of those layoffsā¦.
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