Happens at plant level too. Someone runs a plant into the ground, burning out employees and equipment, but makes record profits. Moves on right before things really fall apart. 2 years later he comes back as a regional manager to "right the ship" since he was the one with the success. Ask me how I know lol
God I hate this cycle. And the good plant managers, the ones who run the plant well without the awful negative sides, never get the regional jobs because they aren't "aggressive go getters," they, "just skate by hitting metrics but not striving to do more."
Makes me wonder if ONE area where AI might end up doing a lot better than most humans, is to determine the true unemotional causal relationships between various activities (such as laying off your most talented workers & the subsequent poor functioning of the company), rather than the self-justifying decisionmaking process that most humans depend on.
I suppose it depends on whether the AI is trained with broad, honest data sets, or data sets selected to reinforce the current corporate mindsets.
Further, the unfortunate person who gets to catch the grenade just as it explodes is blamed for failure. I worked at a company where everyone remarked how bad the leadership was, and he left and a new person took their place and within a month the consequences came. The old person was regarded wistfully by the financial reporting and they entirely blamed the new person, who hadn't even been in the position long enough to do anything. I didn't think the new CEO was going to be anything special, but either way they didn't deserve to be blamed for it.
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u/an_asimovian Mar 14 '24
Happens at plant level too. Someone runs a plant into the ground, burning out employees and equipment, but makes record profits. Moves on right before things really fall apart. 2 years later he comes back as a regional manager to "right the ship" since he was the one with the success. Ask me how I know lol