My boss is getting fired next week!

[Wcross]

New plant manager is coming in, and the snake is out! Just confirmed it with a friend in the corporate office. He has promoted a family friend from temp worker to manager of Quality engineering in the matter of 4 years. She has a degree in Marketing, and was put over engineers with 30+ years of experience. I would bet my next check that she is on her way out also.

I love change, it is so exciting!

[Yavin4]

1. Typical American Management

Promote the bullsh**ter over everyone else.

[SummerGrace]

5. Typical American voter?

ccp from a usmc site

For those not familiar with Naval aviation lingo, there is a visual aid on aircraft carriers to let pilots know if they are on the proper glide slope for landing on the deck. The item looks like a "meat ball" and moves up and down depending on how one is doing on the glide slope. This "meat ball" looking thing is called -- "the ball". The fact that a pilot has a visual on this approach aid dictates a radio call to the controller on the ship.

The normal call from the pilot of the Navy S-3 aircraft carrying the President would have been "Lincoln, Navy One, 12,500 lbs, Roger Ball" --meaning, I have the ball in sight and am on glide path (for a safe landing -- the weight is given for setting the correct braking tension of the arresting gear cables).

The President's recent final approach to the Lincoln resulted in the following radio call from President Bush:

"Lincoln, Navy One, 12,500 lbs, I have the balls,"

The President's call brought down the house and wild cheers erupted. No wonder the military appreciates and likes the man!

[boilerbabe]

2. I love being a Peon...

management is too volatile. She will be on her way out just as soon as the one who put her there falls out of favor. Have seen this over and over where i work...they just ousted our production manager for various reasons and put back the original production manager. The only people who are "safe" so to speak, are the immediate shift supervisors and those of us who actuallly do the work. (maybe...)
I work in a small paper mill, recycled linerboard...and we have more management then actual worker bees. NOn-union, too...that's another story....I run the boiler there, probably the least-harassed job, simply because no-one knows the job and it scares them.
Anyway...would like to know what kind of plant you work in...Nepotism is rife in ours, too.......
XXXOOO

[Dagaz]

3. Lucky you!

I've got 1 guy who I don't work for any more that needs to be canned. Everyone knows that he's the problem but management doesn't know what to do. It kills morale to keep problem children around.

[sasquatch]

4. Our Bosses need to be canned

They could fuck up a soup sandwich they're so damned incompetent but, because our plant manager is doing everything possible to destroy the place he doesn't fire them. He doesn't want to show weakness so instead of firing them they promote them to get them the hell out of the way.

[Wcross]

6. Promotion

That happens a whole lot around my place. You do a great job, you are stuck because "we can't replace you (or pay you more)"- screw up and you are moved up, or out.
It is a great time to be a woman at my plant. I have a degree, 12 years of quality experience. A job opened up in my department for which I was more than qualified. They elected to give it to a woman with no degree and no quality experience even though both were in the job spec. I must have lost the swimsuit portion of the interveiw process. I understand we have to be fair in regard to eeo laws but it seems that they could have found a qualified woman to put in there.

I have given up hope of any promotion. I requested a move to production in the Union, another brick wall.They say it can't be done even though it has been done in the past. I have made my point and if they won't do whats fair I have to find something else.

[TheBigGuy]

7. "Angels"

...that was the term used in the civil service...you give poor performers a good appraisal so they can get hired away elsewhere...."you make them into angles by giving them wings so they can fly away".

The there is the "turkey farm", where you put the screw ups where they cant do too much damage. I really havnt seen that too much, though.