Too many siloes. Everyone owns "something", until they have it ripped away by some other "owner". No one actually works together. You have no power to execute change with other people who might logically work with you. Management by checklist. Quarterly partner reviews are just a dog-and-pony show - there is no effort to fix things. Partner management is all about catering to a partner, not really integrating them. It's so easy to get trapped between competing demands on your role and no one will get with you to reconcile these changes. Manager X says, "we don't do that, I'll fire you if I catch you doing that". Manager Y says, "it's your fault if this fails because you don't do that task." Managers X and Y won't ever talk to each other - you have to figure out how to tread between the two poles. As long as the partner is helping fund your compensation and the check clears, they're fine with it. No one in leadership wants to hear about problems. The approach is to "counsel" you out of believing that. There's no culture of solving a problem or changing an established practice. There are too many layers of management for such a relatively small company - I influence millions of dollars of revenue and I'm 8? levels below the CEO (and it's always churning - no one ever knows who is actually in charge). I'm working 2 full-time jobs, it feels like, with little practical support to navigate between them. I'd like to look for a different role in the company, but I'd be blocked by my current boss and the vendor management. I don't even know who I'd escalate to. There's no HR group with an open door policy. I'm too well known outside WWT that when/if I started looking around, it'd be very public. There's no "quiet" job search in my role. My mental health has severely declined in this role. I'm tired of people saying (even jokingly) that I'm going to get fired when I try to take initiative to solve things that they don't care to solve.
