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I'd suggest you leave and find something else. It doesn't sound like you are cut out to handle the corporation structure politics.

> So I reach out to the manager and ask what is going on. This is a simple task, I said. Why does it take an entire quarter for your team to deliver? He doesn't have an answer.

This was probably career ending at your company, I expect you have been added to a layoff shortlist somewhere for the next round of downsizing.

Go find something else sooner rather than later.

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> This was probably career ending at your company, I expect you have been added to a layoff shortlist somewhere for the next round of downsizing.

Almost certainly not. This requires actual malice on the part of the manager in question. The manager in question doesn’t have any direct authority over OP (unless OP is really bad at storytelling) so would have to go way out of their way to hurt OPs career. Much more likely, the manager doesn’t care about OP at all, because why would they?

But yeah, unless OP is waiting on piles of stock to vest, move on. But because they are unhappy, not because of this random manager.

> This was probably career ending at your company, I expect you have been added to a layoff shortlist somewhere for the next round of downsizing.

Uh? I think it’s pretty random to say that kind of stuff without knowing anything about the new company. I can’t see any decent company firing newly acquired employees because they want to move fast…

> I think it’s pretty random to say that kind of stuff without knowing anything about the new company.

Works both ways, right?

Probably the key negative was:

> This is a simple task

Is it? OP has no idea about the software it's being integrated into, and while it may _seem_ like a simple task in principle, it may not be, and it's a judgement on the work that's on another team to deal with. Quite easy to fall into a trap of trivializing work that you yourself aren't responsible for.

Also,

> he doesn't have an answer

You sure? Literally speechless?

> Is it? OP has no idea about the software it's being integrated into, and while it may _seem_ like a simple task in principle, it may not be, and it's a judgement on the work that's on another team to deal with. Quite easy to fall into a trap of trivializing work that you yourself aren't responsible for.

Right! May be the team/manager he was talking to - had no capacity left for the current quarter. There could be dependencies on other teams that might require some planning etc

> This was probably career ending at your company, I expect you have been added to a layoff shortlist somewhere for the next round of downsizing.

O man! I believe OP has a lot of insight into corporate dynamics. It exactly happened to a friend of mine. Those corporate seasonal managers does not like to be questioned or give any input. A friend of mine did something similar, and guess what - he was laid off after few weeks; very shortly after starting at a mega corp $

Not only did they fire him for daring to question a manager, they fired a bunch of other people to cover their tracks!

It’s almost as if layoffs are common after acquisitions and correlation is not causation.

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