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Originally Posted by mreid
Wow, such negativity...
Just because someone was hired from the outside doesn't mean they didn't work their way up.
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I'm not saying they didn't. But it sends a message to the folks who've been there a while that they have no chance of advancement, and that makes them start looking for jobs elsewhere.
The latest VP we hired comes from totally outside our industry. It will take him a solid year of touring our offices and going out on meetings with AMs to figure out what we do and how it all works. I know I'm going to get voluntold to take him on client meetings somewhere and I fear the day. My clients will have no respect for a stranger who tags along and has no idea how things work. On his first visit to one of our regional offices, he fired a manager who was one of the two I know who worked their way up to that position, having started at the bottom in our company. Not saying she didn't deserve it. But it has people looking at other options now.