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I work in a 4,000+ person company. Two years ago, the CEO created a dozen new positions underneath him. President. Chief of Marketing. Chief of Design. Chief of Product. Chief of Buildings. Etc.

Some of it was needed. Many were not. My boss, a director level person, would end up in a room with like 15 of these Chiefs-of-X, and hundreds of other directors. There was no heirarchy. You'd have a Chief of Product working with the Chief of Design and Chief of Marketing.

Many of them would just walk around, making demands to push their personal initiative, do 2-3 "update meetings" a day then go fuck around and collect their $500k salary

Late 2024, a lot of us found ourselves in "Office Space"-level BS where we'd have multiple bosses. I was reporting to two directors, and four Chiefs myself. Every week, I would get verbally chewed out by one, and praised by another - all different every time.

Last month, we got a memo that there was going to be some "restructuring" of departments. Then last week, half the Chiefs were quietly demoted to Dept Leads managing a small team, or fired. No other staff was fired except the C-levels.

I don't know what sparked it.

But I won't deny this seems like a path in the right direction.

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[โ€“] Treczoks@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We had a situation where the banks forced us to split into two companies. Our part would be a new-formed company under a previous department manager. Our choice was to join the new company or let go. So I told the CEO that I would like to work in the new company, but if he would give us that guy as a boss, we'd be bankrupt in two or three months. Most of my coworkers told him about the same.

Handbrakes were applied to the process, the company owner was called, he talked to us, too, and called in a general staff assembly to tell us that the original candidate would not be available for the role of CEO for "health reasons". We got split off with a different CEO, and since then we are prospering like never before.

[โ€“] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Back in 2015 a site I was consulting for held an 'anonymous suggestion box' and one of the most common suggestions was to fire the owner's son, or at least remove all his management roles

He was a drug addict that routinely stole site equipment, solicited the female employees for favors, was verbally and mentally abusive and in charge of 3 departments

Said drug addict paid the on-site IT guy to pull the CCTV of the box and sat there for four fucking hours writing down every person who submitted a paper (most of the company)

Over the next 2 years most of those people mysteriously got fired or left

The brain drain collapsed the company functionality and in the middle of the pandemic they sold the entire company to their biggest rival, who fired everyone and basically used the offices as a second warehouse

No blame was ever given to the addict son and his part of the selloff bought him a cabana in Monaco and he is there right now gambling and drugging and buying high class hookers

Fucking nepotism is ruining the world but president dump just says we all have to work harder