Highly political, good ol' boys club - Project Manager Providence Employee Review

2.0
Mar 1, 2014
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Pros

No lack of work here

Cons

IS Project managers should be allowed to be advocates for their business customers but because they report up through IS they are expected to cover up issues and wait for them to work themselves out. It's seen to be more palatable that a project manager be run over by the bus then an application analyst or system engineer as an example. It's been demonstrated that management tolerates disrepectful behavior towards project managers (i.e. cursing, hanging up on). Project managers are the scape goats at this company. Also, the good ol' boys club exists here and the female leadership demonstrate the Queen Bee syndrome. I was once told by a female leader that to be respected and valued I needed to say as little as possible to convey my message because that is how men communicate.

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

- upper management hates the nursing union - we are short on many supplies on weekend night shifts - crappy insurance - my unit’s manager is almost never there, they’re always on vacation or working remote. This makes our manager very out of touch with the unit’s needs

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