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ORIGINAL: popeye1250

First line management, second line management, management awards, backbiting,...
it sounds like that co. has been infested with buearacracy and needs to be totally restructured.
How does anyone get anything done there?
Sounds like a junior high school not a business.

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ORIGINAL: CatdeMedici

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ORIGINAL: popeye1250

First line management, second line management, management awards, backbiting,...
it sounds like that co. has been infested with buearacracy and needs to be totally restructured.
How does anyone get anything done there?
Sounds like a junior high school not a business.

Amazing, believe it or not, its one of the most successful businesses in the world.

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ORIGINAL: CatdeMedici

<I know there will be some as I go into this who say, suck it up Princess, be glad you have a job-I know that, My question is designed to insure I keep that said job>

Here is the scenario: I was recruited by this company 9 years ago, for over 10 they had been my client--I was hired for an expertise that they did not have. After two years I ran into the pirahna pool-- some first line managers didn't like what I was saying and a certain second line manager showed me the internal door ( meaning I had to go find a job elsewhere in the company or the door). A  year later that second line manager ended up giving me an award for work I did in another group that benefited her group and she sent me a note that said, " I was wrong, I'm sorry". 
 
I am now 7 years from that pirahna pool, (we have instituted documented evaluations which mine are stellar in addition to many multilevel management awards) and I find that one of those brutal first line managers is now my second line manager due to my promotion and a re-org.  I have had now 7 sleepless nights as he has demonstrated that his behaviors and work expectations have not changed and I know with his genius mind, he hasn't forgotten. He got where he is by a combination of smarts and the boot heel effect--(he doesn't give a damn for the people as long as the job gets done). Sure I am 7 years removed, but I am also 7 years invested in a different personal lifestyle that can ill afford neither the angst, the ever present sword of damaclese, or having to find a new job because what I do, there are probably 200,000 in the US that can do it.
 
I am looking for some advice how to survive at least for a year until we open other intercompany job opptys.

Holler if you need me