i just might be yunfei

I work for a company with a mission,

which would make it a great company to work for, if it actually truly believed in what it promises.

On the first day of training, it was fostered in us that the company’s first responsibility is to our customers and people who use our products. Then, employees. Later, the community. And finally, last of which would be the shareholders.

Over the past two weeks, 50% of the marketing team has been dismissed, a lunch buddy, all under the name of restructuring. Now the company is left with an inverted hierarchy, heavy with people who cost the company more than $250,000 a year, displacing the people who earn less than $100,000. Where is the wisdom in that? And then today, a friend finally decides she wants out (and it was just a month ago that an executive at HQ told us the critical factor in preventing turnover was Respect).

Mind you, the company isn’t making losses. However, I do agree that there is streamlining to be done because there is simply too much slack in the organization. But why not start cutting from where it really hits the income statement, and the bad management that led us to where we are in the first place? Instead these are the people who get higher percentage pay rises and bonuses.

What does one, who has absolutely no say, do with being in an organization that has lost its way?