Former Boss Only Made it 9½ Months
Jan. 26th, 2026 09:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerHere's a thing I forgot to mention about the clown-show of my company firing my boss last week: He'd only been with the company 9½ months. I mean, I guess letting a person go after 9½ months is better than letting someone go after 7 years— which they did to another manager in my department a few years ago! But canning a guy after 9½ months seems a bit unfair because it's like they barely gave him a chance.
...Not that this manager was struggling, BTW. Quite the contrary. He hit the ground running in May and was helping people on deals within his second week. He brought some skills to our team we were weak on and helped us all become better as a result. I know I learned a few new techniques from him.
Ultimately, though, his dismissal wasn't about him. Or it was, but it was about who he wasn't. He wasn't an old friend of our new Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). And that's why he was fired— or, more precisely, had his position eliminated in a minor reorg.
You see, one of the perquisites of being named to an executive position is that you get to pick some reasonable number of the people who report to you. If those positions are open, you sweep people in from your professional network. If those positions are occupied.... Well, you have to sweep the existing people out first. And it's churlish to say, "Your services are no longer required because I want to give your job to one of my friends," so instead the new boss does an immediate reorg, eliminating the positions. The tell that this is really a ploy to clear spots for friends is a) the exec cites highly principled rationale for the dismissals— in this case "efficiency" and "better business alignment"— then, b) a few months later, reopens exactly the same positions that were eliminated, sweeping in his buddies from his professional network.
I've seen this movie before at my company. I'm willing to bet it's running again now.
Of course, I don't expect I'll be here to see the finale of it this time.
Because fuck these self-serving, acting-sanctimonious-but-really-have-no-integrity clowns.
...Not that this manager was struggling, BTW. Quite the contrary. He hit the ground running in May and was helping people on deals within his second week. He brought some skills to our team we were weak on and helped us all become better as a result. I know I learned a few new techniques from him.
Ultimately, though, his dismissal wasn't about him. Or it was, but it was about who he wasn't. He wasn't an old friend of our new Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). And that's why he was fired— or, more precisely, had his position eliminated in a minor reorg.
You see, one of the perquisites of being named to an executive position is that you get to pick some reasonable number of the people who report to you. If those positions are open, you sweep people in from your professional network. If those positions are occupied.... Well, you have to sweep the existing people out first. And it's churlish to say, "Your services are no longer required because I want to give your job to one of my friends," so instead the new boss does an immediate reorg, eliminating the positions. The tell that this is really a ploy to clear spots for friends is a) the exec cites highly principled rationale for the dismissals— in this case "efficiency" and "better business alignment"— then, b) a few months later, reopens exactly the same positions that were eliminated, sweeping in his buddies from his professional network.
I've seen this movie before at my company. I'm willing to bet it's running again now.
Of course, I don't expect I'll be here to see the finale of it this time.
Because fuck these self-serving, acting-sanctimonious-but-really-have-no-integrity clowns.
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Date: 2026-01-27 10:34 pm (UTC)