OT: The Insane Modern Corporation

Sorry to post this. It is meant to be rhetorical.

Anybody here work in a large corporation?

I just got my first bad performance review in maybe 25 years. Some
things I learned.

Saying that my workload is impacting my performance is a sign of:
ineffectual behavior, lack of committment, lack of planning, inability
to control stress.

To prove I'm overworked I must produce a document with data and graphs
that quantifies my work situation. Saying I don't have time to do
that report shows I'm not meeting the minimum.

If I don't teach my job to people who have connections and passively
sit back it means I don't have a good customer service attitude. I
just found out there are several people who successfully blamed their
performance situation on me for not teaching them something. I keep
forgetting we have no friends at work, just competitors.

Bringing up the fact that our projects are negatively impacted by poor
to nonexistent completion of work we request from offshore outsourced
companies means we have a poor attitude and are not service oriented.

The performance bar keeps getting raised higher and higher for
employees but lowered for the people we outsource the jobs to. We are
not rated on the actual technical work we do but on cutting costs,
producing cost cutting plans, spreadsheets and graphs. The best job a
person can do is to package their job and offshore it. I'm not
exaggerating. Management has held mandatory meetings telling us we
have to come up with services to be outsourced.

I vitually have no one at work I trust to even say the above, let
alone find an ally. Fear is the most debilitating emotion for humans
and management uses it to divide us into single powerless units.

I hope I make it through to the end of the year. I got the distinct
impression that if I don't "improve" at the 3rd quarter review I will
be gone. How do I improve? If I ask for improvement guidelines it
means I don't have the skills to remain an employee here.

The company I work for plans to move all jobs off shore to Poland,
China, India, Mexico, and Central America. That includes biotech
R&D. It's a slap in the face to American employees that all these
jobs are going to countries that have universal healthcare and
discount prescription drugs.

Ed S.
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