20 Reasons Why Corporate Life Sucks
Found this amusing article about why corporate life sucks:
[I've thrown in my two pennies in GREEN]
1. Control me master, please. Company owners, management and bosses leash you up the best they can, more so then my mother ever did.
2. Cheap chairs. It’s hard to feel valuable when your back hurts and you watch your boss buy a $460 piece of glass for him to make more ‘company art’ with. Our company actually has nice chairs, but since we’re consultants, we never get to be in the office to enjoy them. I think they did that just to tease us, since they know we will never get to use them.
3. Hovering. Why are people so nosy? Just let me work. This is the evil of having cubes with 3ft walls. No privacy. The whole world knows what you’re doing.
4. Trying not to starve. Eating out costs a significant amount of money and packing lunch gets tiring and transporting it gets old. The nice thing about consulting- expensing meals when you travel out of you home city. The bad thing- not getting to expense when you work in your home city.
5. Presence = productivity. Whoever was the bastard that spread this message around is lucky he’s probably already dead or half the American workforce would get off their “pretending to work” asses just to hunt him down. I cannot agree with this one more. If we get our work done, why shouldn’t we have the choice to leave the office early every now and then? There is no reason why an employee should sit around until 5:30 or 6pm just to appear like they are working. I have actually witnessed coworkers that have sat for an hour doing nothing, just to make it appear they are working overtime to the manager. I understand the rationale that if they finish early, they should take on more work if they complete theirs early, but there are instances where that isn’t possible. Just let them go when they finish. It worked in school, it will work in corporate america.
6. Time = commitment. Why doesn’t passion and enthusiasm = commitment? Some people get it. Totally agree with this. Just because you have spent a long time on a project or company means nothing. Actually, it means you did just enough not to get fired. Or you were not motivated enough to find something better.
7. Entitlement. They pay your wage therefore they own the rest of your life. I don’t think I need to add anything to this. That statement says it all.
8. Commuting. Thanks, you just made me miss my train. Again. For a FedEx box. I know, you’re too good to drop one off yourself. Commuting just plain sucks. Plane, train, car, it all stinks at 7am.
9. Tardiness. Don’t be late, it defines your commitment. Like time, remember? Besides, those fifteen minutes help define all of todays productivity. This is similar to #6. I’m one to be punctual, but some people are just anal retentive about it.
10. It’s illegal, but still taking lunch is frowned upon. Apparently no one there ever heard about Netflix. I eat. No corporation will take that away from me.
11. Nannies can raise kids. Who cares about the next generation, you’re needed now, and no you can’t do it tonight. I have no kids, thank goodness.
12. I gave you time off on Christmas Eve. There’s a definite sense that one should be grateful for given national holidays off.
13. You’re fired. But our crappy executives got a bonus for deciding it. Enough said. In this given economy, I think we saw plenty of this.
14. Your boyfriend died? Oh sorry, bereavement time is only for immediate family members. We’ll have to doc your pay.
15. Sick days don’t exist. Staying home when sick is smart, but coming into work sick is dedication!
16. Earn your keep. Like a stray mutt, please prove you’re even worth keeping around.
17. You give two weeks notice. We’ll likely give you none.
18. Screw women. They’ll just end up having babies & leaving anyway. This is obviously sarcasm, sort of…
19. Everything that goes wrong is because I’m an idiot. No, not because you can’t delegate.
20. Drink coffee, take speed. Do whatever it is you need to do. Just don’t nap; being awake means you deserve your check.
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Article courtesy of www.justmakeitbetter.com
Hey there,
thanks for the link!