>working for some small company >overworked but I have freedom in regards to the systems and doing whatever I want to do >shit pay (40k/yr) but interior is really nice, very modern and open concept. >everyone seems miserable but they laugh and are energetic at times. Good team chemistry and dynamics
Then out of no where some massive organization decides to hire me > pay increase (56k+6% bonus) >large organizations that is known by the majority of the population >excited to start my first day >start my first day and the horror...
it's cubicals, everything is grey and bland, and quiet as fuck. No one talks, everyone is silent and just starring at their screens, some are on Facebook and talking to coworkers through skype... They are also idiot in regards to systems, no one is using it correctly, they were so surprised when I could do basic ass shit.
Wtf, why are larger organizations more backwards, and they seem to be less fun and suck the soul out of you? My whole life I've wanted to work for a large organization, but now I'm conflicted.
Because large corporations are more stable and easier to fly under the radar in, so they attract people who want to have a guaranteed job forever, do the bare minimum to not get fired, and not actually give a shit about the product. There are small companies like this too, but they collapse pretty quickly because they don’t make money. Once you become Too Big to Fail, you can rake in cash for the shareholders even if 80% of your employees are worthless shits.
Julian Bennett
Went from an amazing job to more serious. Got a raise went to real serious and no fuck off time. People was asshats there and brown nosed all day. Got burned out went to a large company.
The large company is all fucking idiots like shit in their hands then they think its chocolate. Everyone has heard of this company.
My newest job with a very large company again everyone knows. Pays awesome bens all but health is awesome. Get to work from home. However its look at the monitor in a cube farm. People go in to collect a check and thats all. I got no boss there which helps. But its an awful place to work. Thinking about moving on.
Mason Diaz
This is crazy true. They also have no use for multi talented people. You do 1 job thats all.
Jonathan Kelly
In a large organization, some middle management bean counter sees that if they limit everyone to one sugar packet per coffee they could save the company hundreds of thousands of dollars across all business units.
For this brilliant act of cost cutting, they get a fat bonus check.
When HR onboarding and retraining budgets increase by millions over the next few years and productivity goes into the shitter as new hires are below average, nobody in management ever figures out that it's the abject pettiness of the one-sugar-packet policy driving away talent.
Note: This is not a hypothetical example.
Anthony Miller
Not all large corporations are like this, I work at one everyone has heard of and it's modern and open concept, nice people, people aren't fucking around on the internet all day (for the most part anyway). You've probably inadvertently stumbled on a bad one.
Grayson Bell
I was a middle management manager in a large national company. trust me, there are still smart people at the top of most publicly traded companies. that being said, what gets promoted are (usually) the ones who hold their hands up, the ones that work harder than everybody else - because they're the most insecure. they've learned to hide it most of the time from their subordinates but man, never seen such a collection of vicious, back stabbing, credit stealing insecure fucks as my peers demonstrated in this company. the senior leaders are just as insecure, always worrying about who was angling for their job. even with all that bullshit to deal with, most of them were smart enough to know who to hire and who to get rid of. they watched that ROI line every day. and that's the system, it's fucked but it still works.
Eli Williams
About 80% of all businesses are bad and 20% are good regardless of size, but the big and small ones are bad in different ways. Big companies, look at the rest of this thread. Small businesses have their own hell of personal vendettas, lack of fixed policies, owners putting their favorites in positions of power, etc.
Brayden Jenkins
So how do you play the game and get promoted without being a backstabber?
Nathaniel Perez
Existing maintenance manager keeps a ready stock of common replacement parts. Has an aggressive preventative maintenance program that replaces stuff during planned operations downtime.
Eventually retires and replacement has all the fashionable qualifications. Sees shelves in maintenance warehouse loaded with spare parts and tut-tuts about six-sigma, lean, just-in-time inventory.
Time passes.
Shit breaks. Operations are halted. Maintenance stays overtime to fix it. Parts have to be ordered in overnight-rush delivery. Operations are restored with only a few days of lost production.
New maintenance manager is praised and rewarded for handling the emergency so quickly.
Lather. Rinse. Repeat.
End-of-year. Overall business unit profitability is down 15 million.
Emergency maintenance is billed to the Operations cost center as it is not routine maintenance. New maintenance manager gets praised and rewarded for slashing the maintenance budget. Operations personnel get poor evals for increased downtime and lower product totals.
This is ALSO not a hypothetical example.
Evan Rodriguez
>cubicals Learn to spell first, ffs.
Isaiah Ward
THIS x 100000000 Experienced it firsthand.
Ryder Davis
Yeah good question. I cant wait to hear the answer. Cause in all my years its about fucking people over on the way to the top.
Blake Kelly
You don’t. Upper management at literally every large company is stocked exclusively with psychopaths. The ones who work hard and try to get promoted honestly end up in lower management, which is the nightmare job where you get constantly shit on and scapegoated from both above and below. If you think I’m joking, you haven’t worked at a big corporation.
Lincoln Murphy
Fuck off nazi. Dude is brain fucked asking for support. Go to McDonalds and suck cock.
Logan Flores
Or go to night school learning a decent trade, get out of the wage cuck office job bullshit. Each day is a different problem to solve and you make more money.
Jose Carter
First, don't be stupid. And by that I mean don't tell that stupid joke that's racist or sexist or fucking whatever. So many guys coming up with me just did such stupid shit sometimes. They may have thought it was nothing, but that is exactly the shit that gets talked about at upper levels. Be good at what you do. I've found that those who think they're great at work - suck, those that worry about it a little bit are usually okay. Do extra stuff - not just any extra stuff - but things that you really want to do. If it comes up and looks like it's something you want to do, put your hand up. Make people around you better. If you're working for smart people, and that's what you want, then they will see you helping others as something they can count on in the future. Finally, don't be a dick. People want to work with people they like, don't suck ass, just don't be a fool.
Evan Robinson
Larger organizations are able to hire more workers since they make so much money that the marginal returns don't matter that much. There's so much work that organization take priority over practicality and sometimes innovation. That's why you're stuck, doing little work for good pay with no real direction. While you wither with menial tasks, the company continues to grow, barely noticing the many cogs that make the machine continue to grow (i.e. you). That's why I choose to work for small companies. Hard work gives me that gratification from my peers, the type of gratification that I might get from a bigger company if I worked 60+ hours a week and wen't way above and beyond for no real reward...
Colton Phillips
Personnel churn in operations and maintenance has become unacceptable and HR is having trouble attracting replacements.
Outside consultants do an extensive several-month survey and determine that people are pissed off about the one-sugar-packet policy (though it has never really been enforced), but more importantly that the starting hourly rate is significantly lower than surrounding companies and most new-hires were aware that the company was suffering a retention problem, would hire basically anyone, and were only using it as a stop-gap until better-paying work could be found.
Recommendation: Increase starting pay for new hires by $3/hr.
Question: What about people already working there? Answer: They will be brought up to the new baserate.
Question: What about current employees who make more than the new baserate by way of years of qualifications and experience? Answer: We'll get back to you. [...] Answer: They'll be evaluated on a case-by-case basis and may have their pay adjusted.
Observation: No one making more than baserate has their pay increased. Observation: Many of the most experienced personnel, now making barely more than new hires, find work elsewhere. Observation: Accidents and incidents increase dramatically due to losses of collective decades of operations and maintenance experience.
