Our team struggled with our manager. A young, c—y first-timer he didn't support us at all, and was often "working from home" but not logged on for days at end. He played favouritism to one guy, and the two of them belittled and bullied the rest of us.
We all provided honest Upward Feedback, hoping something will be done about it. Nope. In the next team meeting our manager discussed and denied the feedback we gave. He counter-argued every point raised, and became more vengeful than before. Turns out the manager above him provided our feedback to the bad manager. The bad manager was made a Director recently.
In my experience, there is zero HR oversight. Upward Feedback is used to knit together a lineage of poor managers who create protegees, and the cycle continues.
Posted on a different thread by @11lpQK1P-oka , but this post really catches the image of the ill atmosphere and culture that we’re exposed to an Mellon