Mrs. 1SBM just got some bad news ...

[1StrongBlackMan]

22. Actually ...

Could that be the case with the top heavy management titles there?

When she first told me about the Consultants, I told her (jokingly) that they should be glad I wasn't on the consulting team because the company IS top heavy and, based on job function, their Directors are really Managers, their Managers are really Supervisors, and their Supervisors are really Leads.

But my experience has it that re-orgs are best, prospective, if you wish to preserve employee trust ... Meaning, employees should not be harmed in terms of pay and/or title (unless the SOLE reason for the re-org is for cost cutting purposes ... and even then, they should plan on any cost savings being eaten up for about 5 years because of the disruption to the workforce/loss of trust). Instead, changes should be made when FILLING vacancies ... you hire the new person into the lower classification.

I think, in this my wife's case, she would have been far more accepting (and I far less suspicious) had they down-graded ALL of the Directorships.