The fall of another great one. - Engineer Jacobs Employee Review

I really hated to see what has happened at this place over the last 20 years. When I first got out of college (more than 20 years ago), the Greenville Jacobs office was the place to be for a young engineer. Good mentors, smart set up for projects, good overall personnel, and so on. Granted, there were a lot of politics, but the pros far outweighed the cons. Now? Place has completely gone haywire. Some of the best people cut loose or gone. The younger people.....it is obvious they haven't been mentored at all. (Really lacking in know-how.) But probably one of the craziest parts is how affirmative action has gone wild. They have a lot of women in positions who clearly aren't qualified for the job (by temperament or experience). Interestingly enough, I overheard one of them (one of their "section leads" or whatever it was called) acknowledge that privately. A generation ago, she never would have been considered for that based on her level of experience. On the personality side, one stunner was the fact a woman I had the displeasure of working with the first time I was there (incredibly rude, abrasive person, whom it seemed like was never there) has actually been made a higher up in the organization's management! Unbelievable. I remember thinking 20 years ago, they'd can her the first time layoffs came.....instead, *this* happens. Oh well.