Re: I work for the wrong people
My experience is that it depends on who your line manager is, and if you are liked, or the manager is a control freak, or that management want to reduce the amount being paid to employees.
People who get targeted are not the managers favourite, and the blatant admission where the manager said to one that they looked after them, just reinforced this. Whenever there was a cull, this was apparent.
Also, in another process, those people being "coached" were all 50+ who probably were being paid well compared to younger people.
Whatever HR processes you have in place for performance management, it will always be misused by management, to obtain the results the company wants, and it will be skewed according to whether you are a favourite or not. Meritocracy does not really exist.
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