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Originally Posted by O.city
Just curious, but what in the article do you see as so heinous?
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The accusation that there was a heavy amount of monitoring, and the way they were using that monitoring against people. It's not been confirmed, but there's an accusation that the team used months of Denny Thum's phone and e-mail logs against him. There is talk about private conversations being monitored--I don't think I've ever heard that before in any company. For Haley or other associates to be that paranoid about monitoring, to me, likely means that they have personally experienced or saw instances where conversations they worked very hard to keep private were somehow discovered. 2-3 years after the fact, knowing how clamped down the organization was on secrecy, you'd have to think that this isn't just about some floozy sending out a facebook post she wasn't supposed to send. This sounds like these were people who despite being careful, were still getting caught. Maybe some of that is okay because it prevents info leaking. But that, to me, gets into a disgusting feeling that you can't hold a single private conversation in the building or talk about your personal life, etc... without somebody hearing every word of it. That's Big Brother-esque. So what evidence are we seeing? We're seeing Haley obviously paranoid, as if he's been heard before. You have employees that believe the organization is so intent on enforcing non-cross functional lunches that they are actually watching cars to make sure they don't leave at the same time. And by the way, Pioli deserves some of that reputation. He came from an organization that was caught monitoring things he wasn't supposed to be monitoring, in a very, very unethical way.
The accusation that the team is fostering a siloed business environment where co-workers distrust members of their own team.
The accusations that the level of detail goes beyond any strategic connection. You understand why they cut the price of coffee. Reeming somebody for referring to him by his first name or for not taking the right path to the gym? Seriously?
I largely love what the Chiefs have done on the personnel side. And I knew Pioli was going to bring that expertise in. What worries the shit out of me, is that across both the business and personnel side, that this will quickly become an organization nobody works for. And again, as I've said before, talent is absolutely everything. Our Director of Scouting is being heavily vetted by other teams. We have coaches we have to hire in light of these stories. We are losing employees (and will then have to re-hire other employees back).