@snoofle said:
... A new CEO was appointed. He immediately decreed that the global IT staff of 10,000+ could be cut by 1/3....
Does a ringing phone make a sound if there's nobody in the building to hear it?
...The CEO exclaims: Wait, you mean all those people were necessary?
...A few years later, the CEO was tossed.He got a new CEO gig at a ...
Alright, there are some things about the business world I don't understand, but first:
1. Who appointed him? Didn't they keep an eye on him? If I'm hired into a position, I'm always watched, and guided to get to know the environment -- I'm not allowed to just do whatever I want. Are you actually saying that at the top no one watches you, no one guides you, and people wonder why businesses are the way they are?
2. When the phone calls to the development staff went unanswered (because the building was empty), why weren't flags raised immediately? Why weren't people investigating?
1b: Which gets back to: Didn't anyone raise questions when such large amounts of divisions were removed from the chart?
2b Which gets back to: Who do you complain to if the CEO breaks something?
3. Why did it take a few years to toss the CEO? After "You mean those people were needed?", a mess-up of that scale, why wasn't the CEO tossed instantly? If a lead developer made a mistake like that, do you think they would stay around? ... Err, wait, I've read enough WTF's over here. Never mind :-).
So, it seems: Lead developers, and lead admins, get to ignore mistakes, and the rest of us have to live them.
Hmm. So maybe my trying to bring my manager's errors to the attention of people who could do something about it wasn't the best thing to do.
4. So he gets a new job. I take it they didn't check references? Just looked at the resume, and trusted it? No one passed on the whole "He made this error, we let it go, then he made that error, and we said "enough""?
Man, how do you become a CEO? That's gotta be the best job ...