Following disastrous timing of a PE sale P2G has been forced to cut and cut again but it has failed to find an extract the cancer at its core.
What it hasn't cut is its expectations. Neither did it gain any focus or priority.
I joined at a beautiful moment when Parcel2Go was looking to mature into a middle sized company with better structure and governance. The aforementioned poorly timed PE sale alongside WW3, cost of living crisis and Brexit impact resulted in that beautiful moment passing. Parcel2Go decided to fall back on its old habits, they'd been successful before, right?
Well, yes, only because leadership claimed ownership of market changes in their favour. When the market turned against, they were found wanting (I mean, Sven the stork, really?)
And boy, in my opinion, is that leadership poor/toxic. From name-calling in meetings to responding to well-worded resource concerns (they chewed through three heads of at least in 2023 alone and many more junior colleagues) with accusing the individual of "whinging" to blaming people who had just left the organisation of failures not belonging to them and much worse I believe the P2G leadership is rotten in all but about 2 individuals. Furthermore following cutting staff beyond the bare-bones they couldn't quite grasp that they no longer could do as much, as quick, as well - they took zero responsibility for their own action. In fact, as this title alludes to, my experience was while good profit making activity was there for the taking they kept returning to certain tasks over and over because they didn't like the answer they received.
Ultimately my biggest workplace regret is bringing my career to this mess of an organisation. It is a personality led company masquerading as a data led one and as such will likely fall like a lead balloon with the coming changes (such as AI).
