Abusive Middle Management and Micropolitics - Anonymous employee Gartner Employee Review

- Untrained people managers (they even use bad language, resort to shouting, ghost you for pre scheduled calls etc) - No Work Life Balance: may make you work at 6 in the morning or 2 at night - 0 Empathy Leaders: Might make you suffer and overwork you for taking leaves for medical emergencies - No communication channels for employee harrasment - Politics and Gatekeeping: Managers might gatekeep info from you about your own employment, important work deliverables and even the right channels to report problems, only to use it against you. They might also try to show off your work as theirs, or push you under the bus instead of owning their mistakes. - If they want to let you go they'll put you under a PFS (their lingo for PIP). Whatever you do won't change their decision, it's a false setup for laying off. - Working Style of most teams is extremely old fashioned, they'd make you spend time building trackers and reports rather than actually implementing changes, only older folks get along with each other. Be careful of which BU, which manager you work under, if they're not humane, you'll suffer a lot.