Man, new bosses love to shake things up, to "make the workplace theirs." It's literally one of the most common things to happen when new bosses come, and very often it results in a deep change in company interpersonal politics.

Barry used to be your go-to guy, but the new boss has decided they just don't like Barry. Why? They couldn't tell you, but Barry gets under their skin, so it doesn't matter how he's the best guy on the team who can handle whatever is thrown at him, his role is going to be dilluted and minimized and he's going to be pushed and prodded by negative management to try to get him to just quit. Eventually, Barry will just quit because who wants to work under those conditions. Barry found a better job, and now he's replaced by your new bosses 20-something nephew who doesn't know what the fuck he is doing at all and everyone can't stand. He's a fucking loser who keeps getting promoted by the new boss.

I've been through that too many times to pretend it's just "that easy." No, generally the kind of people drawn to that role are controlling dickheads who have their own dickhead "vision" of being the biggest dickhead to ever dickhead.

[–] fluckx@lemmy.world 30 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

But how am I supposed to prove my exorbitant salary if I can't prove I'm doing something. If I don't change anything they'll realize I don't do anything and can't do anything! As for my next idea, we need to put ads in steam because everybody is doing it. And people should watch a promo video before their game starts because look at how successful YouTube is! I'm a genius for doing this. YOU ALL JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND.

~ some manager, somewhere....probably

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Hey, did you know your lemmy account is set to appear as a bot and some users may be filtering your comments as a result? You can change this in your lemmy profile settings.

[–] fluckx@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Oh dear. Thanks for letting me know.

It must have been on by default, or I must have accidentally clicked it.

Thank you for pointing that out! I appreciate it.

Have a great day !

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

Thank you for acknowledging it! Maybe a third of the people I've mentioned this to respond.

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Have seen it. Good managers walk in and watch their team for months to learn how things work before making changes. Bad managers walk in and change things before learning why they work the way they do. We saw that with Twitter/X.

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

A good CEO uses the 30-30-30 method.

The first 30 days they are observing, the next 30 days they are asking questions, the last 30 days is coming up and proposing improvements.

Only after those first 90 days a real decision can be made.

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

I'd never heard of it that way before and that's interesting. Thanks for sharing.

[–] MrVilliam@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

I fucking hate your comment. Good work capturing the exact futile frustration you're describing.

[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Unless they fuck it up somehow in recruiting a new CEO, Valve really wouldn't find it hard to ask a new CEO "Here's our revenue, and our expenses, our profits. How would you keep this in place without crashing our revenue stream and maybe doing new greenfield stuff?"

If their first words are: "Well, I like the idea of charging our customers an install fee..." you know to keep looking.