Advancement: Can be fast if you look good (male or female) along with finding your way in upper managements pocket (place instrument, sing, suck up, have friendships, etc). No real exp. or knowledge needed.
Middle management: The favored children who baby sit the lower force. There purpose is to do nothing but find fault/praise with whom the upper management wants moved up or removed. This creates a useless, non-trained middle management with little credentials/credibility, who give no respect and receive less. Great job if you can stomach the role, great pay with ultimate power (as long as it doesn’t interfere with upper managements feelings/motives), who always has someone to take the fall for them.
The company’s favorite words are transparency, that’s why they have meetings to do nothing for a week but talk about their sales force in closed private settings. No real evidence is presented at these meetings and employees are never informed or given any chance to defend themselves. Thou it is said that numbers drive these meetings, numbers don’t take a week to look at (They are looked at monthly) and everything leaks from these meetings anyway (they cant even trust each other) causing massive damage afterwards as word comes down who was abused, favored and not liked. Based the majority of the time on hurt feeling and opinions with nothing to back them up except more of the same. This behavior does not represent a major company’s management principles, but Santa Fe Naturals management is young and has little true management training. It’s all about how to climb that ladder and placing your allies, no matter whom or what is in the way.
