Pros
James Slattery's presence inspires fear in middle management to behave and treat their subordinates with respect. There is a night and day attitude change in those individuals now that he's back. They couldn't pretend to be nicer if they tried. It also brings great relief to the workers as he has proven once again that he's a man of his word. (began cleaning house of the real problems after speaking with employees). ***Also, all the perks like BBQs are back because of him now that he's back and he knows that something went incredibly wrong with the company he created from scratch, and that's the type of environment he wants his employees to work in. Millennium does provide all of those perks. But that's aside the point. (see cons below which are the reason why so many people left) Upper management looks like they're finally seeing what middle management has been keeping from them for such a long time. (reasons for turnover, morale drop, etc). To be fair, upper management could have investigated a little harder, a little sooner. I cannot think of a single individual at that company that I know that doesn't work incredibly hard. Many intelligent people working for this company, which is why it's such a shame.
Cons
Heavy nepotism and a C.Y.A. first mentality with middle management. They circle the wagon as best they can and lie to upper management. about how the people who are resigning or terminated are to blame They created a toxic atmosphere that intimidated the majority of their employees on a daily basis that just wanted to work without some psycho breathing down their neck. Bullying became common place among supervisors, and the VP looked the other way. When management came up with a plan that wasn't working, lower level employees would identify the issues first and explain why the new idea wasn't or wouldn't work. Instead of being grateful, middle managements egos would inflate and take it as a personal affront. They would label these people as "complainers". Watching middle management scramble and come up with non-sense ideas on the fly,and insisting that they're working until upper-management is dissatisfied, then making another drastic change while blaming their subordinates. Or sticking with an idea that clearly was hindering progress (like filling out 3 separate logs instead of 1 to save time???). ***Employees were threatened directly by supervisors in a group setting about how easily replaceable they were because frustrated management didn't like that they themselves were responsible and revealed as incompetent, or couldn't keep the promises they made (in reply to the post on 2/26) ***Watching too many good people get pressured, bullied or harassed in a toxic environment to the point were they couldn't deal with it anymore.