- The people managers only see their subordinates as means to get work done so as to look good to senior management. There there is no career mentoring or any form of development at all
- Pay is stagnant at the grunt (i.e. non-people manager level). Management will always come with the most unbelievable and crazy excuses to deny you a pay rise or bonus, a few examples of excuses I got over the years: 1) Your work level did not step up to that of a Heads Of or General Manager (when I was 2-3 rungs below) 2) Your Head Of/GM does not like the fact that you always seem to offer viewpoints on projects that does not support he implementation of the project (when the project has all these risks that if not called out would have exposed the company to serious ASIC breaches) 3) You work from home too often
- Managers will overwork subordinates to the maximum they can take. There are some people who are doing the roles of 2-3 FTE each and management still want these people to "step up" and take on more
- Bullying, this is rife throughout the division I worked in (Wealth), where some people managers would overwork their employees unreasonably (i.e. a constant expectation that employees will work weekends and long hours), verbally abusing and making degrading remarks about employees and also denying employees the right to work from home by saying that their role does not support it
- Poor work life balance, where employees on leave cannot enjoy it in peace as managers will ring them on their mobile and even in instances demanding they come back into the office to resolve issues
- Incompetent managers, who are lazy, useless and totally inept at being managers or even subject matter experts. There are some managers who have only risen to that position as they are world class champions at brown-nosing senior management.
- Politics, everyone is backstabbing everyone else just like what you would see in Game of Thrones. This even extends to managers backstabbing their own subordinates and vice versa. The level of political subterfuge is so great, real work cannot be done at all as a lot of time and effort is required to manage the politics between teams and departments
