Corporate America sucks (insert word here)
I absolutely hate Corporate America. For several reasons.
About 7 months ago, my company "merged" with another company. Well, in those past 7 months, it has slowly become evident that it was more of a "takeover" than a merger. And while my company has many dedicated employees, to whom their work friends have been family for many years, this new management has made it clear that their direction is pointed towards profit. Obviously that is the goal of any business, but rather than take the time to make the merger work for the long term success of the company, they are pushing pushing pushing to double their $250 million investment within 3 years. To all reasonable people, this is very short term to change a business, and even if it happens, it will sadly not be in the best interest of the company in the long term, nor any of the employees. In fact, just last week they fired 4 existing senior exectutives, including the President of the company, who many looked up to, as he was quite a nice and personable guy, very different from the new management.
In a meeting last week, the Executive Chairman who made the decision to fire these people told us that basically things will be changing a lot, and if we don't like it, then maybe we should look elsewhere for employment. Oh, and by the way, they've stopped given raises, saying that tenure means nothing to them.
So, moving on, I've been looking for a new job. I'm pretty much always looking for a new job, but again, while job hunting, it again becomes clear that Corporate America is evil. I am trying very hard to make my next job better than this one, and am searching for a small company that not only is successful, but actually values their employees. Novel idea, eh? Well, I've interviewed at several places, only once again to find that most jobs offer FIVE, yes FIVE, days vacation per year. Is that absolutely ridiculous or what?
Is something wrong with me, or do other people think the corporate world is so far beyond FUCKED UP? And if most of us think this, than why can't we find other people like us to work for?
About 7 months ago, my company "merged" with another company. Well, in those past 7 months, it has slowly become evident that it was more of a "takeover" than a merger. And while my company has many dedicated employees, to whom their work friends have been family for many years, this new management has made it clear that their direction is pointed towards profit. Obviously that is the goal of any business, but rather than take the time to make the merger work for the long term success of the company, they are pushing pushing pushing to double their $250 million investment within 3 years. To all reasonable people, this is very short term to change a business, and even if it happens, it will sadly not be in the best interest of the company in the long term, nor any of the employees. In fact, just last week they fired 4 existing senior exectutives, including the President of the company, who many looked up to, as he was quite a nice and personable guy, very different from the new management.
In a meeting last week, the Executive Chairman who made the decision to fire these people told us that basically things will be changing a lot, and if we don't like it, then maybe we should look elsewhere for employment. Oh, and by the way, they've stopped given raises, saying that tenure means nothing to them.
So, moving on, I've been looking for a new job. I'm pretty much always looking for a new job, but again, while job hunting, it again becomes clear that Corporate America is evil. I am trying very hard to make my next job better than this one, and am searching for a small company that not only is successful, but actually values their employees. Novel idea, eh? Well, I've interviewed at several places, only once again to find that most jobs offer FIVE, yes FIVE, days vacation per year. Is that absolutely ridiculous or what?
Is something wrong with me, or do other people think the corporate world is so far beyond FUCKED UP? And if most of us think this, than why can't we find other people like us to work for?
1 Comments:
At 9:32 PM, portuguesa nova said…
This might be totally naive, but I feel like this crazy greed and unchecked power has to come to an end at some point...or at least it as to become easier somehow to separate ourselves from our dependency on these gigantico corporate entities as our employers and as the only place we can afford or even have available to do business with.
It is frustrating.
And five days of vacation is the stupidest thing ever.
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