Re: The Insane Modern Corporation

The insanity here is in working for one of those big outfits in the first
place. Unless you are very lucky, it's a sure recipe for the sort of
mistreatment described by the orig. poster. The bigger the company, the
greater the amount of bull*** and the less you can do about it.

Watched my father ( a much brighter and more industrious man than myself) go
through it all in the 60s and vowed I would never allow the 'system' to
control my life in that way.

The system is insidious in that it traps you with visions of material
success and can snatch it away even more quickly. Because you 'have great
promise' in the early days, you follow the recipe, mortage yourself to the
nuts and build a life just like you see on TV. When the employer turns
out to be crazy, incompetent, outright dishonest or all of the above you
are scuppered. If you are very lucky you may discover this while still
young enough to escape. If not, you enter virtual slavery in order to
maintain a house you couldn't afford in the first place, keep your kids in
private school and pay for the car that reinforces your public image of
success. Nice.

Independent luthiers very seldom reach the financial heights of modern
corporate execs., but they own their own souls. There are lots of other
ways to regain your humanity as well.

KH
<edspyhill01@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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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