Pros
Impress yourself by working hard and well. But you don’t have to waste time impressing all the VPs. They are only impressed by themselves. The other things one doesn’t have to worry about: raises, internal promotions, bonuses or 401k matches.
Cons
Optimism for the new President has been dashed by executive cronyism, corporate trendiness and frantic acquisitions which aims to distract from the new executive team’s inability to increase revenues organically. The VPs seem to get their unoriginal, inapplicable, trendy ideas by walking down the business isle at Barnes and Noble and coopting the latest corporate buzzwords off the book covers. The most obtrusive result of this is a new open-air Houston office to foster collaboration. This has resulted in a fish bowl of an office with no privacy and lots of noise. The only collaborations are the nervous breakdowns from widely disparate salaries, no privacy, raises, bonuses, 401k matches. promotions, hope or fun. The Company has been losing 1 to 4 million dollars a quarter. Legal proceedings with one of the company’s most important vendors won’t help the streak. So, take solace, there are others alienated by all the VPs. Any new hire seems to be at the VP level. Employees who know customers and products are fewer and exhausted of energy and hope that the seemingly endless, new VPs can turn the latest buzzword (Internet of Things) into a functioning operation.