Reply To: DW Community Catch-up Thread

I’m creeping up on a month at the new job and glad I made the move. There’s more variety in what I do. My team is fantastic. I’m engaged in work again. There’s a lot to learn still, which sometimes feels like a lot, but I’ll enjoy the honeymoon while it lasts.

I did learn by talking to my former boss that my last company’s dysfunction ran deeper than I realized and started at the top. The executive director was/is well aware that one department was floundering even after they were fully staffed. Sounds like he was refusing to fire anyone despite mounting pressure to do so from people like my old boss and other high-level management because he was scared of a discrimination lawsuit. The director with oversight of that department also did nothing, just relied on people like me from other departments to pick up the slack. One woman in that department did end up getting fired not too long after I left — of the year and a half she worked there, turns out she was on a PIP for a year and three months(!!!) with no improvement. An old coworker also agreed to absorb my old job into her existing job and I can tell it’s not going well. I left 5-6 weeks ago and she’s still texting me regularly to ask kinda weird questions about how to handle different issues that pop up, and I can tell from the company’s website that she’s not finished much to completion. So. I was sad to leave that organization, but think it was ultimately for the best.

How is everyone else?