It's official: The Internet is Owned by White Dudes

[bettyellen]

144. Yet I have seen many jump in here pretending it doesn't happen when a woman says it does...

I was totally appalled when I saw who my boss was replacing me with- I ran a large department and had to evaluate and manage the creative and technical work of half a dozen people every day. I had over ten years experience and implemented work saving measures that saved them 4 X my salary when I started there. He hired someone very young with NO related experience at all, who didn't even want to me to show him the ropes. He was a handsome guy who thought he could just flirt and cajole the work out of people. That he could show up in meetings and just smile and say it'll get done - no worries, and just dump it on other people. They stopped saving the 4X my salary immediately. LOL.

I found out her was given a salary almost as much as mine- and realized my boss was sort of living vicariously through him, being a young hot guy who traded dating stories with him. I asked him why he'd give such an inexperienced guy such a great salary and responsibilities and he told me it was because the guy was looking for a wife, and had to pay for really good dates. I shit you not. He had confidence this guy could handle anything because he had an arrogant air. Well, he really fucked up and they lost a lot of business before they were able to even see it was this guy's doing. They just saw a successful looking dude and thought it would be a success because he projected it. I later found out his first work and only prior experience- partnership in a pizzeria, was also a major fail. But on a personal level- my boss enjoyed his company a great deal. Same boss admitted to his partners that he hated me because I "never made a mistake!" and his partners- who had more sense than him and had hired me, were just flabbergasted to hear that. But it happens. People in the workplace often really like and compensate incompetency all the time. We've all seen it.

Another place I worked had a major layoff reorganization where several hundreds of people are all switching roles the same day. Most are very specialized technically and moving to products they have no familiarity with at all. None. And no on boarding or training at all. And being given 50-100% more work and a tighter schedule. LOL. This is an internationally know brand. I've never seen so much expertise flushed down the toilet all at once, and they seem completely unaware that this is what they are doing. It's incredible that the leadership would throw that many wrenches into the system at once, but it's absolutely true. The assumption is that they want everyone who has been there more than five years to quit if they haven't laid them off, because they want every single person at a lower salary level.