UPS reviews

Ever since Mike Eskew stepped down as CEO, the corporate culture spiralled downward. The new CEO was a beancounter, and every action had to be justified in terms of direct ROI. As a result, a lot of software bugs never got fixed, because nobody wanted to take the risk of trying to make something better if people were used to it being barely mediocre. So, most of people efforts devolved down to CYA, as they took away every perq that made the place worth working there. There are better places to work that pay more and actually value emplyoee contributions.

Every upper management person in virtually every function is cut out of the same mould-- all a group of "yes-men/women". There's very little 'vision' or 'leadership' in this critical group. In many instances, the 'purpose' of a large scale work project is "because {senior mgmt person} wants to see this"--whether it adds any strategic value to the organization or not. If you're accomplishing all your goals/tasks, then the feedback is "good job, keep doing what you're doing"...which leads to zero career movement.