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Do you go above the bosses head or dont you?

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We all know that “you don’t go above the bosses head” in any UK electronics engineering company…to do so is career suicide..
However, what do you do when your Engineering Manager is deliberately “pranging” the electronics products so that they fail in the field, subsequently putting the company out of business……at which point the Engineering Manager brings in the company’s product “equivalents” from a Far Eastern manufacturer, to sell to the company’s customers, the said engineering manager acting as “middle-man” and raking in the moolah thereafter?

Do you ‘sing like a bird’ or don’t you?
 

Whoever you are wondering whether to tell there's a racket being perpetrated, you must make sure beforehand they are not in the racket too. Does the owner of the company benefit from the racket? Would he tell you to get lost?

You'll need evidence, if you decide to get involved. And it must be more than circumstantial evidence. Does the Engineering Manager have the owner's favor? Then you will not convince the owner of much. Not by yourself. What this adds up to is, that you may need to wait until someone higher up comes around and asks if you have seen, well, sabotage by people in trusted positions.

Although your question is not specifically electronics related, it probably has you thinking whether you should start your own company. To do so, you need to know both your job (electronics engineer) and the owner's job. Do you know how to do the owner's job? You can be capable as an engineer, however as for the owner's job, it requires a different set of skills and knowledge.

Or perhaps you are considering applying to another company for a job. This sort of racket can go on in any company. Economic realities have caused a decline in manufacturing. People can be counted on to go with the cheaper price. We are so used to quality electronics at cheap prices that we expect the quality to continue. The financial advantage has shifted to the Far East. Economic hardship can bring out fraud and money-grubbing in people.
 

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