this company exists for one reason. To advance the careers and income of the C suite and the level below it. Period. It’s not about shareholders. It’s not about employees. It’s not about patients. Look at nearly every metric and you’ll get sick to your stomach. Anemic growth (despite cheers otherwise). Attrition (elective or forced). Old technology without a genuine R&D capability or interest to innovate and improve. We have old stuff tired stuff that we task young inexpensive reps to peddle. International is every bit the mess that is the US business. An army of yes men/women placating their senior managers for job security and the occasional gift of a cookie from a complicit HR leader who also has built a facade of department importance when in truth its a self serving ego manic who has learned that if she just fans her DEI strategy she will appear to be progressive and a spokesperson for the underserved but it’s just a smoke screen.
I’m gone as soon as I can find something suitable and until then I just keep under the radar but this place would be best served to just sell off the assets, not just core, and shut down. The question is what are the assets really worth. They have trashed many and are in the process of trashing the remaining ones by empowering their GMs to make sweeping change to staff and strategy without understanding implications. They do so for self preservation not for organizational success.
Hope all my colleagues get out to higher ground in 2023 as well. Until then pass me another cup of kool-aid.