I spoke extensively with my boss about the situation. He is very much feeling the same frustrations as I am. The root cause is a new General Manager, lets call him Pete, was just hired 3 weeks ago who is now in charge of an area which is completely off track and bringing the company down. The issue is highly visible up through the organization all the way to the CEO and heads are going to roll if it isn't turned around.
Through one of my projects, code name OTD, I am working on, not directly related to the situation in Pete's area, I discovered the issue at hand and the root cause. It was definitely a WTF are we doing moment. I took my discoveries over to the line manager who was directly in charge of the process and systems who immediately blew me off and told me I was just making assumptions. This particular gentleman has always been very protective of his area and systems, and up to this point, since the only 2 people who truly understand his systems work in his department he has successfully thwarted off investigation attempts.
Immediately I took my findings to the President and the brand new General Manager, Pete. While I sat there with all my documentation and story telling examples, Pete proceeded to explain to me for 15 minutes as to the cause of the situation before I even had a chance to speak. The information he was provided was very much BS which came from the protective architects of the area. I was a little put off as to why he didn't have interest in LISTENING to the results I was about to present, not to mention the constant interrupting and talking over me. I left that meeting with a sour taste in my mouth.
So on Thursday I had a meeting setup with my OTD project team and Pete to discuss our options going forward and devise a strategy to overcome an obstacle in project OTD. Up until this point the team has made fairly good progress and has been very cohesive. Pete shows up to the meeting 15 minutes late, takes phone calls while people within the meeting are speaking to him and frequently talks over people, including myself. I could see the teams' WTF look every time Pete was rubbing people the wrong way. So at the end of the meeting we had a simple 3 step action plan to get over the hurdle. Everybody was getting up and heading out the door when Pete demanded we halt the project. At that point I felt my blood pressure shoot up about 50 points. He comes to the meeting late, misses the briefing of the situation, is disrespectful of everybody in the room, destroying morale along the way, allows the meeting to end with an action plan in place then pulls the plug as everybody is leaving the meeting.
Come to find out he has done the same thing to my boss and many other people through the facility. What I don't think he realizes is all these people are those going above and beyond trying to drive systematic changes and he is just crapping on them.
My boss and I discussed our strategy yesterday and how we need to change based on the new regime.
Speedy
