Spent the first 6 months as an internal manager feeling as if I was a contractor working from the outside. My manager had set our department out on an island away from the rest of the organization and had no idea how the rest of the company worked. I was constantly trying to reintegrate our department into the larger whole. She had so many blind spots when it came to her own department it was incredibly sad and annoying.
My 2nd manager thought he was emotionally intelligent but wasn't. I expressed outright that I didn't feel safe talking to him about my ideas for improving the organization and he gave me... nothing. Crickets. How do you tell someone you don't feel safe with them and they don't respond?? They stack rank their employees, so when it comes time for bonuses your best employees are ranked against each other, so if you have a good team there are at least a few people getting screwed every year. We had a very professional team with solid history/experience in our field and yet our leaders opinion on our learning content trumped everyone else's (this is a highly subjective field) and this is disheartening to great employees who have collaborated on a project.
I went in to work most days fearful of having to work with my boss. Can't believe I stayed for 2 years. My mistake for staying as long as I did.
Terrible management. Very siloed. Not enough onboarding in each department.
