The text below is copy paste information from another thread to enable willing users to discuss the front the faced at work which was largely influenced by the original culture they migrated from and how they managed (or still battling) to overcome this.

A lot of us in this forum are already into management reporting preparing summary performance at the team / dept level.



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This is about an employee at one of my past workplaces. He held a Bachelors and Masters in Mechanical Engr, claimed about 15 years of related experience and had several related certifications from organizations such as PMI and ASQ, one of them being PMP (Project Management Professional). The employee was laid-off after about 10 months, mostly because of gross incompetence in a weird way.

He refused to take project ownership, somehow managed to state everything was someone's else's responsibility and claimed either he was too busy working on other priorities or the task was not value added. He couldn't articulate his arguments, couldn't read the basics of the technical prints and had poor communication skills to the extent any presentations in front of an audience turned into a fiasco since no one understood what he was saying and he couldn't defend his position. If he needed something, he chose to write emails and wait on it as opposed to driving the task face to face. He couldn't interpret an excel chart and derive conclusions. He couldn't be bothered to pick up a part and do a technical inspection since that was an inspector's job, not his. Meanwhile, one of the VPs did not hesitate to get hands-on.

The above, in my opinion, is an extreme case..

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The weak died on the way,
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