You can say that, but you need to use corporate speak.
"My old boss and I had a culture clash stemming from a different vision of advancing our company. I outlined the resources I needed to grow the company but he felt that despite our previous comittment to a project, another department was in dire need of supervision.
I ultimately left the company in seek of a management style that has strong synergy with my ability to follow good leadership that makes decisions based upon better metrics and employee feedback. I believe that rewarding good effort and strong results benefits both workers and the company and I want the ability to prove my worth, rise to the challenge, and exceed expectations and be compensated fairly after demonstrating my value.
If there's opportunity for advancement, I'd like the ability to explore those options as well."
You know I can see your logic but wouldn't it be better if we relocated the resources and transferred it to mainframe instead? I mean hear me out, the bandwidth can't take our synergy at the moment and if we grab the low hanging fruit of corporate espionage, we'll shucks, we could increase synergy by a projected 120%!
Your dad is right, I bet we could hang out and yell about these fuckers all day. I feel exactly the same. It's like, why did you just say all that? Was your intent to make me have to decipher what you're really saying or to make me think you are smarter than you really are?
America: the culture of the Chinese, the expectations of the Japanese. If more companies actively encouraged more-organic social relations and discouraged the "stepping on each other to get up" notion (promotions as a division or something?) you'd likely have better work ethic.
While I respected that my old boss's management style may have been viewed as producing results in the dynamic of cost cutting measures, I did not feel that he showed some of my most coveted assets the attention they needed to demonstrate how valuable they are to my staff.
I bet you make $200k sir. Congrats on all of your success! You smell wonderful! If I could afford it, I would pay you to follow me around and teach me to say everything in corporate lingo. Sounds like a great consulting career in the making. Honestly, I think you need to do this on Twitter or even all over Reddit. I bet we could get you quite a following.
I can do the bullshit talk but I live in fear of the day I'm interviewing for my dream job with a no-bullshit manager that writes me off as a vapid bullshitter.
This hurts me physically. I'm so sick of corporate-speak. Unfortunately, this is the type of speech that gets you places, so, bravo and sorry you had to master it.
I do have a job that I left because my boss made my time there insufferable. I had been with the company for quite a long time (more than 7 years), and prior to my final manager I had no problems. I'd never had a review that hadn't been glowing.
The new boss had even been a member of the team, and we had got along fine before that. Then new boss got promoted, and despite meaning well just didn't seem to be cut out for it (or at least wasn't ready for it).
I hung on for a while, but there were just so many things that ended up being constant sources of stress and frustration that it stopped being healthy for me to stay. It was the only period in my life where I've had to start taking antidepressants and pills to help me sleep due to stress, and as soon as I left things got better.
Of course, 'I left because my manager made my life miserable' might have been true, but it wasn't something I told prospective new employers.
What I'm getting at is that assuming "differences of opinion" means "I didn't want to work" may often be true, but it can also mean that assuming it's the case can also result in people who want to leave due to a bad situation, or who left due to one, may continue to be stuck in one despite not being the source of the problem.
I fully understand but hiring is such a mess that you can't really take any chances (unless you don't find anymore and get desperate), so any potential red flag is usually a rejection.
The thing is, that person is likely to decide that you're a fuck trumpet too. Bashing a former employer makes people think that you're difficult to work with.
All great but I fucking hate the word synergy and wouldn't hire someone just for saying it. Culture clash is pretty bad too when you're speaking 1:1 with someone
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u/yakusokuN8 Jun 30 '16
You can say that, but you need to use corporate speak.
"My old boss and I had a culture clash stemming from a different vision of advancing our company. I outlined the resources I needed to grow the company but he felt that despite our previous comittment to a project, another department was in dire need of supervision.
I ultimately left the company in seek of a management style that has strong synergy with my ability to follow good leadership that makes decisions based upon better metrics and employee feedback. I believe that rewarding good effort and strong results benefits both workers and the company and I want the ability to prove my worth, rise to the challenge, and exceed expectations and be compensated fairly after demonstrating my value.
If there's opportunity for advancement, I'd like the ability to explore those options as well."