I Despise the whole office/career culture thing (benefits, school, shift)
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The one professional job that I had, I felt the same way. I was so out of my element in professional clothes and I didn't like my job. I especially didn't like having to pay to dry-clean clothes when I hardly made the money for it.
Just started a new job - there are 10 other people doing the same job - no best practises, little feedback, guidance, or management, sitting at my desk in silence struggling through problems by myself that could be solved easily with some support, talk guidance, and help. Everyone's performance could be increased with more team work, systems and procedures. But what happens is people work in isolation, won't share knowledge.
This is the problem - you join a company - but the reality is your never working for a company your always working for yourself, there are no managers, no teams, just an infrastructure computer systems, offices, below the outward fascade of an organisation- its every man or woman for him or herself.
You may as well be running your own business. I think the people who most frustrated with corporate life - forget they are always working for themselves - there expecting to managed, movtivated - they lose the instincts.
Just started a new job - there are 10 other people doing the same job - no best practises, little feedback, guidance, or management, sitting at my desk in silence struggling through problems by myself that could be solved easily with some support, talk guidance, and help. Everyone's performance could be increased with more team work, systems and procedures. But what happens is people work in isolation, won't share knowledge.
This is the problem - you join a company - but the reality is your never working for a company your always working for yourself, there are no managers, no teams, just an infrastructure computer systems, offices, below the outward fascade of an organisation- its every man or woman for him or herself.
You may as well be running your own business. I think the people who most frustrated with corporate life - forget they are always working for themselves - there expecting to managed, movtivated - they lose the instincts.
At least you have 10 other people. I'm the only person at my company that does what I do. I had nobody to learn from, they just made me figure it out.
Typical example - we normally start meeting with a Health and Safety moment - and whilst these can be sometimes genuinely interesting, and informative - there mostly no in anyway related to to office environment.
Its now come down ensure you hold the handrail walking down the stairs, wear rubber grips on your shoes whilst walking from car to office, put a cap on your coffee cup, don't leave your appliances plugged in while way etc .... I wonder are these people for real, is this actually the sort of things they worry about.
Or as i expect, just connivance and playing the game.
Sounds like a corporation where the managers believe everything should be on auto-pilot.
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Just started a new job - there are 10 other people doing the same job - no best practises, little feedback, guidance, or management, sitting at my desk in silence struggling through problems by myself that could be solved easily with some support, talk guidance, and help. Everyone's performance could be increased with more team work, systems and procedures. But what happens is people work in isolation, won't share knowledge.
This is the problem - you join a company - but the reality is your never working for a company your always working for yourself, there are no managers, no teams, just an infrastructure computer systems, offices, below the outward fascade of an organisation- its every man or woman for him or herself.
You may as well be running your own business. I think the people who most frustrated with corporate life - forget they are always working for themselves - there expecting to managed, movtivated - they lose the instincts.
Don't forget all of the circular discussions and Strawman arguments one has to put up with on the job. And I agree with you in that colleges train and coddle this type of unproductive behavior (the more you can fake it, the more you are rewarded).
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our university/college culture is a breeding ground for the corporate armchair employees of the future, the internet only fuels the arm chair experts safe in their comforting little world sitting behind their computer screen.
Yes. And you are right as a fake-team they take it upon themselves to look for anything in order to eliminate a colleague like the reality television show Survivor.
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Anyone noticed these fake employee types - They are very common in workplace.
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