Sol employs fifth colleague

Australian IT - Sol employs fifth amigo:

"For the second time this week, Mr Trujillo has created a new position for an offshore executive he has previously employed, with Tarek Robbiati yesterday being appointed as Telstra's first-ever deputy chief financial officer."

In my experience this is what happens when a new boss takes over. You get all the wholesale change for the sake of change which they tell you is "improving the situation." You get a whole list of complaints about how hopeless and useless you are and then, key positions are filled by people you find out the boss knows. They have to surround themselves with familiars in order to be "effective". It increases your feelings of isolation and you no longer are the familiars. If anything should be changed in the work place, it should be that key positions are held and people should not be magically incompetent or redundant when,until the new boss, it was all fine. I am also concerned that a boss is unable to be a leader without people they are familar with. As workers we have to be flexible and manage relations with what is now a constantly changing workforce. We are always in a state of flux. So, if Sol Trujillo has hired his former colleagues, just look into any boss who takes over and tell me this is not a common pattern. They only think they are the top person. They can't do it on their own in a leadership position and they ask of us what they cannot do themselves.