u/Justarah

The skills required to climb the ladder are different, and often outright antithetical to, those required to actually lead from it.

'Family business' sounds great until you realise certain individuals, if not entire teams and departments become entirely insulated to scrutiny, and therefore other, and often lesser paid, departments must compensate for process and output gaps.

Lower management often isn't management, as much as babysitters that have to run every disciplinary or corrective decision through HR, to the degree it will literally take months to remove a singular someone not pulling their weight.

Resultingly, high performers are leveraged to achieving often times 2-3 times actual standard output, whilst never actually being informed of this fact nor receiving anything proportionate to that output. They'll be deliberately kept in the dark, because of the aforementioned difficulty to remove and replace the workers on the team to meet the standards they set.

Upper management regularly making haphazard promises to clientele, so there's a demonstrable gap between client expectations and capacity to actually deliver them, with the frontline workers who had nothing to do with those promises having to absorb the costs for those gaps.

The optic charade of having to participate in regular meetings to maintain the illusion of collaboration, whilst the actual flow of idea to implementation is so top to bottom heavy, they may as well just be memo's to communicate revised processes.

Businesses themselves are about leveraging the highest returns for the lowest investment, yet the moment you start adopting the same mindset by seeing work as a set daily boxes to tick and goalposts to pass, before chilling for the remainder of your shift, you're seen as a not a team player, as though the most important team in question wasn't the one waiting at home.

The Nation of Dominations is Amazing