You are expected to just go with the flow. Did they just lay off 50+ people? Well, back to work. Did a senior manager just unexpectedly quit? Don’t bat an eye. No one knows what they’re doing? God speed to you. It is utter chaos and you will lose your head trying to follow the list of little to-dos that are handed down to you by senior leadership who you’ve hardly ever met. Instead of actually speaking to you, they just assign you a LinkedIn Learning course about change management. They’ll send you off on a wild goose chase, causing you to spend hours on pointless tasks, only to come to their own defense about “not having bandwidth”. Instead of giving you the time to do your job, they’ll hold 2-3 meetings weekly where you update them about your job, and then they’ll make you fill out multiple spreadsheets about what you’re doing to accomplish your job, all the while taking away time from actually doing your job. Upper management is not firing on all cylinders. They seriously need to come to a halt and recognize that they are way out of touch.
