Research in Motion – “Terrible place to be a project manager.”

Pros

Money is ok. Free phone (whoop).

Cons

Terrible managers.
Huge bureaucracy - tons of boastful process documents about "performance management" and "competencies" and then when you play by their rules and do a great job, your manager agrees to everything you asked for - and then you sit and wait for the VP, in a different city, to give a crap and let you know whether you deserve to get it.

90% plus of my time on configuration management, data crunching, materials and sample request chasing - after getting recruited here from a Project Lead job at another blue chip company, after 10 yrs of project management in global projects - stuck here collecting people's samples.

And all I can do is leave - and with the economy in the crapper, basically my choice is to just do this for now - kill my eyesight plowing through spreadsheets, get used to shipping devices to various users, chase materials. What else can I do until I find something better? The VP just doesn't want to act like I'm anything but a number - like a number way too far down the food chain for him to even address (like number 356.9.2.1.3).

Advice to Senior Management

audit performance and hr practices of every single group.
stop promoting people because their age starts with a 4 - this isn't a bus company.