Like Acton said... depends on your position; if you are upwardly mobile a corporate environment often offers more opportunity. It also depends a lot on the corporation and industry. There are many large corporations that do not have the stereotypical corporate environment (for example; I let my employees make their own hours within reason, work collaboratively, even help train and evaluate one another). Certainly, there are places with a highly regimented corporate culture that many would find unpleasent to work for but this is fadding very quickly as most management theory tends to support creating highly dynamic, less formal, more colaborative environments with more focus on empowering front line employees with accountability for the results of their initiatives rather than focusing on how well they follow processes.
meriter
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Originally posted by Moral Hazard
Like Acton said... depends on your position; if you are upwardly mobile a corporate environment often offers more opportunity. It also depends a lot on the corporation and industry. There are many large corporations that do not have the stereotypical corporate environment (for example; I let my employees make their own hours within reason, work collaboratively, even help train and evaluate one another). Certainly, there are places with a highly regimented corporate culture that many would find unpleasent to work for but this is fadding very quickly as most management theory tends to support creating highly dynamic, less formal, more colaborative environments with more focus on empowering front line employees with accountability for the results of their initiatives rather than focusing on how well they follow processes.
If you can tolerate overblown self-important office speak like this ^ it's not so bad. There's usually free coffee.
Moral Hazard
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Originally posted by meriter
If you can tolerate overblown self-important office speak like this ^ it's not so bad. There's usually free coffee.
Nigga please... I barely even threw out any of the Harvard School of Management talk... nothing on KPIs, metrics, REI, nothing put in the parking lot, taken off-line, or cascaded down...
EarnYourKeep
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Originally posted by Moral Hazard
Nigga please... I barely even threw out any of the Harvard School of Management talk... nothing on KPIs, metrics, REI, nothing put in the parking lot, taken off-line, or cascaded down...
topology, transparency, continuity, audit
the way i see corporate, it's a great place to LEARN and take away and use it elsewhere
Looney4Clooney
I could be upper management if the board of directors were interested in the actual product and not just money but i would never make it as a lower rung drone.
Serial Killer
I have been in a corporate setting for the past 4-5 years and a level 2 analyst. so not really up there on the ladder. lol...
throughout several jobs that i had, i still could never find a normal boss or a superior that at one point or another makes you feel like . just showing that they are above you and that's it.
i.e. my boss recently chewed out her assistant (who's 15 yrs older) in front of everyone. and i mean yelling and talking to her in a manner as she was a 14yr old girl that missed a curfew...
phewwww. just needed to get that out to someone....lol...
LoveHate
i could never work for the man.
Halcyon+On+On
Everyone works for The Man, lol. That's what makes The Man The Man.
Dj Skez
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Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On
THE MAN.
FuzzQi
Don't dig the environment but the work is usually fairly easy, your job is more or less cut out for you, plenty to learn, and the business' size and reach often means you get a few decent fringe benefits.
I think I'll dabble in it here and there in my career but it's not where I want to be.
