No growth in IT division.
- When you requested to attend the IT conference such as Microsoft Developer conference, managers used to be muted about your request to the point they never replied to your request. When pressed upon, they would say something like "we will have to look at the budget" and then never heard from him again and then he moved on.
- When requesting a similar IT conference or an in-class training to another manager, the reply was "you don't need to attend training from the people that gave the training, if the instructor can do the job, they won't be trainer. The instructor usually were the type that can't do the job and you won't learn from them."
or another reply was similar to:
"If you don't know how, use google and search for help, you will learn more from there, blah, blah."
But then he himself would attend conference every year and never brought anything valuable back to the team to share such as best practices, or how the industry use the new technology and approach to solve a problem.
The management was not being truthful and did not practice the ICARE values that the company preached about. Somehow, they created a very toxic place to work where team members were afraid to thank each other. Because if you thank somebody for the help they gave you, to that manager, you are weak and incompetent and you should know how to do it, etc.
The manager was incompetent himself. He often relied on some of his senior folks on other performance, instead of getting to know you or your own performance. Basically, if you don't have a good relationship with a couple of his "good old boy" network, you will not do well within his team.
Another issue was that it was not easy to transfer to a different department. Even if you qualify for a position, but you are "NOT" an ethnic or come from that part of the world, you will not be hired into that team. The director, the manager and most of the team members were either from the same country or from the same ethnicity.
