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Free cheese to go with your whine. |
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Not true |
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02/28/2006 |
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perhaps because these boards were originally intended to be a legitimate resource for prospective employees and current employees looking to change positions within or outside the company. Instead, they've become a venting ground for a relatively small group of cry-babies and nothing of serious merit ever gets done. Anyone who remotely sounds less than totally pessimistic, or who suggests that there might be more constructive uses of posters' and readers' time is roundly insulted and accused of drinking the kool-aid. Meanwhile, someone posts a rant based on no facts, or their own failures, and the bozos jump on the bus cheering him on. So the whiney-babies own the board the same way the grafitti writers own the bridges. Maybe the spray painters think it's art, but it just makes most of us puke. There's a word for these folks. It's in the dictionary under "L" (hint, second letter is "o")
Oh, and sure, because I say this I'm a Hewitt Whore (just thought I'd save you all the trouble of pointing that out to me) |
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I think there are a few of us that strike a balance on this board and don't have to face angry rants for stating our opinions.
Personally:
Hewitt has helped me quite a bit. I arrived at the company a cocky, straight-out-of-school slacker and have been able to learn at Hewitt how to be a productive and valuable employee. I've learned to have a head for business, to lead others, to convince clients of the importance of my viewpoints. Hewitt has offered classes to help me with these in addition to a few fantastic managers. I have advanced my career and the careers of others along the way.
On the other side of the coin - Hewitt has done a poor job of change management... perhaps because too many of our decision-makers think that their employees are just "whiney-babies." They've also used some justifications and explanations that seem disengenous.
I'll use the example of the free lunch here since it's fresh in everyone's minds. Last Spring there was a Source posting regarding the free food program at Hewitt. It had a FAQ section that specifically asked the question "Are we going to lose the free food?". The answer was "No, we are commited to keeping and even enhancing the quality of the free food benefit." Less than 10 months later we announced that the benefit was going away. Giving the greatest possible benefit of the doubt this means that our leadership was woefully unaware of the challenges that our business would face (if eliminating the benefit was necessary to remain competitive) within the next 4 quarters. This means in a best-case scenario our leadership cannot effectively predict their expenses and needs for a coming year (let alone long-term direction). In a worst case scenario they were merely lying to us... indicating an active disregard for their employees' concerns (enough so that lying to temporarily stave off criticism would be acceptable).
I'm not a Hewitt-hater... I'd probably be an assistant manager at some retail outfit without the lessons that I learned at this company... but I'm not willing to put blinders on in an attempt to whitewash my company's shortcomings either.
The ONLY criticism that I've gotten for posting these sorts of opinions has been from the "rabidly support Hewitt" front... the "whiners" don't seem to care about the positive aspects of my statements.
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