Kryton57 - Member@ chekw Sounds like the company interview process is a fault if people are allowed to bullshit themselves into a position.
What happens to the now vacant Senior position & the position they vacated - are they filled with lesser experienced people?
They don't have to interview to promote as they can promote a person as they like. No bureaucratic rules there.
The now vacant Snr position is either filled by promoting from within or recruit externally. If candidate oversell themselves again the same process happens again all over ...
However, other employees like those that actually deliver the services/operations never get sacked. Their jobs are almost "guaranteed" for life but obviously forgoing the possibility of high pay.
Spooky's right, here I'm almost at the top technical grade with zero chance of going higher bar management and unfortunately he's right when he says that as a depot manager your just a mouthpiece, dog to kick when something goes wrong for the senior management in a blame free culture.
It's a bit grim when I realise that I've 20 years to go before I max out my final salary pension which is about the only reason I'm staying.
I'd like to do something else but whilst I'm very good, probably the best in the South East Production District, it's dead tech now and even our new "state of the art" gear is still a good 5-15 years behind what the real world uses and currently we are being de-skilled into card changing monkey's as they are cheaper.
So I'm a bit stuck really. 😥
I think the key deciding factor for me was although everyone was telling me to go for it, I was lacking the drive/ambition that I think I would need to make it work, let alone enjoy it.
