UK Executives - Disconnected OR "Running a Game"? - Anonymous employee National Grid Employee Review

2.0
May 30, 2012
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Friendships developed among co-workers is invaluable.

Cons

Reading UK Executives' dedication to Ethics Principles versus witnessing/living them in Central NY are opposite ends of the spectrum. It reminds me of a Tom Clancy (Submarine Tactics) book; that of an allied Submarine being tracked by/receiving Orders from a Surface Ship (there one minute; gone the next)... the Submarine diving below the Thermal Layer; the Surface Ship has absolutely no idea where the Sub is going but Trusts it to follow "Orders". As for Exec's "Running a Game" (saying one thing and allowing something else to be done)... I don't think so because what they affirm in the UK is extremely clear (No Interpretation Is Needed) and has not the slightest resemblance to what is happening in CNY... there's no chance to skate responsibility by invoking deniability.. So the UK Exec's Must Be in the dark

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1.0
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Pros

At NGED the few pros are lessened by the day as the cons are increasing. The idea of a career has gone and now most are resigned to just having a job.

Cons

Aside from the reality being very different from what the leadership team sell IE they don't care about people or net zero, it's all spin and marketing. Now at NGED we are in a situation where staff you have known for many years simply disappear from duty and no one seems to know why, a couple of weeks later they have left the business with an NDA. It's happening all over the business. There seems to be a drive to remove any leaders who have industry technical knowledge and replace them with people from outside the industry who knows little to nothing about electricity. Despite safe to say being an important value, speaking out against this usually results in an NDA. It's toxic positivity where playing along seems to be more important than the role you fulfil.

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