The Mentor Program - I

Every now and then all the executives and flunktional managers get behind one effort in an effort to better the company.  One of these efforts is the Mentor Program.  In theory this a great idea, younger engineers reach out to more senior engineers for help with everything from how to deal with technical problems to how to drive  their career in the right direction.  But as you know by now, execution and theory never go hand and hand at the Shitshow.

Since this is a company wide push, it comes down to the flunktional managers to push enrollment.  In fact they get graded at the end of the year on how many of their minions signed up for the program.  To help achieve this goal flunktional managers make it mandatory for everyone to sign up in the database as either a mentor or mentee.   Once you signed up, flunktional managers stopped tracking it since they had a metric they could show there flunktional bosses.  The flunktional managers could care less if you actually participate, just that you’re signed up.  Great follow through!  

This is only the first of many reason why the mentor program is only something the shitshow could be proud of.  Stay tuned during the next couple days for additional reasons.

Because there is many more post to write about why the mentor program is a complete joke, I throw rocks.