re: #441 Walter L. Newton

Non-management employees have NO means of communicating anything to upper management in some sort of organized fashion.

I’ll have been with the company a year, as of March 31st, and I have yet to see a single meeting of employees and management for any reason.

That’s just odd.

They don’t think it’s important, or it’s too expensive to have all the employees in one spot for 30 minutes.

There is some similarity to my situation: reputed firm, owner is a Dartmouth/USC MBA holder, pretty smart guy. I was the highest up the food chain with the actual ‘down in the trenches’ experience base in our business. Yet somehow we didn’t do as well as they thought, so they kept changing things and trying new schemes to increase efficiency and productivity. These schemes were thought up with little input from the field, and the field was never invested in these new schemes because it was another stupid scheme thought up by management.

Then when I questioned those schemes challenged that thinking, Douche told me I ‘wasn’t being a Team player’ since I wasn’t going along with the plan. His plan, that nobody else thought was a great idea.