Do you work in corporate America? Rant...

Not a F500 or publicly traded, but very large company here. We've always been forward thinking on e-working, though a couple of managers dragged their feet for a long time in general.

What gets me about my current place (over 2 decades) is that it's seeming to get more into PR and charity whilst taking from the workers. Summer 2020 they announced no raises this year and they're no longer adding money to pensions (we do have a 401K as well and they did up the contribution to that). Not ideal but it meant few if any layoffs so I said I'll live with that. Really burned me spring 2021 when the top brass regaled us all with the list of charity they donated to in 2020 totally 20-something million.

Starting to think about going elsewhere, though having a pension, 5 weeks vacation, etc are not easily found walking in the door.

We do get $50 a month for Internet being home; honestly, I've found new balance to my life being home especially in the warmer months. The few people I'd socialize with at work were either already home or in different buildings so I would eat a sandwich and kill 40 min of time at lunch then. Now I can go ride my bike, swim, do small errands, etc etc.

 

Along some similar lines, I enjoy watching TV commercials telling me how great a hospital is, all paid for by my inflated insurance rates. Or seeing a hospital touting its sponsorship of some art festival or whatever, again paid for by my inflated insurance rates. Then later I read about how Medicare/Medicaid has fined it millions for unnecessary cardiac surgery, one more time you got it - paid for by my inflated insurance rates.

 

Working for a publicly traded company is going to be a shitshow, and all of us that own public stock have blood on our hands, whether we want to admit it or not. Day trading and treating the stock market like it's Vegas is just gas on the fire.

Employee-owned ESOP where stock is relatively evenly spreaded, and corporate worked up through the ranks, is usually a much better deal. Although one still will run into HR departments compromised by the Woke Inquistion, who don't have a f'ing clue on what the company does as business to keep the lights on.

Working for a small business owner who isn't a tightwad is going to beat all.

 

I worked with Walmart in Bentonville for about three years...

You think the way companies treat employees is bad? LOL... if the consumers only knew.

 

Well… Sony won’t see another nickel out of me (I understand they like to sue small Bands in the music industry) and that just pisses me off. Thanks for the rant.

 

Shareholders? What makes you think the upper echelon gives a damn about shareholders? As long as they can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, they are perfectly aware that they can rape and pillage everyone eventually.
In fact it's a more popular competitive sport than golf... which is really just an excuse to show off the stories of rape and pillage while avoiding the office.

 

Before I retired from working full time 3 years ago, I used to tell my younger coworkers the future is yours to change. Don't look at me to help you because I know I am on my way out and I just want to hang on to what I have while I can. I would not want to be 18 again and see what I see today with employers and employees.
I watched US jobs fade away every time our politicians voted on a new trade agreement with promises of better high-tech jobs replacing the ones we were about to lose. None of that was ever true and they gave away Americas future in the process. What we have today is nothing like what we used to have or who we used to be. The future is yours to change. Don't count on nobody doing it for you.

 

You’re fired.

Here you go:

https://youtu.be/q3euAfNhuR4

 

Love it, though I am still partial to the Dylan version..

 

I recently learned of a concept called "quiet quitting". In short, you basically do the bare minimum to keep your job..in all ways.

I've thought about my situation the past few months and decided I need to do this in some ways. I'll still do an honest day's work for an honest day's pay. I won't consciously slow down my production for the sake of this. However, I will no longer bust my hump trying to far exceed the expected numbers as I once did. I will no longer do things that are above my pay grade I never did this anyway but I will make extra sure to take every last minute of break/lunch that I earn.

Why? Getting the basic message that I'm good enough to do things above my pay grade but not good enough to get the actual job/title/pay. Not even getting interviewed for a role I did for most of 18 months under the guise of "on the job experience". More than once, not even having my internal application acknowledged.

 

Careful there... you're beginning to sound like management material.

 

i've worked for several multi-billion dollar companies. currently at a Fortune 250 company

i definitely feel your pain, but also have learned to just roll with it. i come to work, do my job as best i can, and then go home and forget about all the BS. there are pros and cons to working for these big companies. one thing that is both a pro and a con is that you are just a cog in the machine. that can either make you feel frustrated, or be extremely liberating. i feel liberated by it.

my wife works for a very small company, she has a lot of pull and influence which is great and very fulfilling, but also comes with a ton of pressure. pressure that you don't typically have to deal with when you are 1 of 50,000 employees.

 

Don't work for Corporate America per se but interesting thread I work in healthcare and seems we deal with similar issues.

 

Asking is an open door. Whomever asked opened the door for duder's feedback. When you ask someone to evaluate a situation you are asking them to judge the situation and provide feedback.

 

Corporate America is all about the rat race to the top. Been there did that. I don't think I'll ever get away from an office job given my degrees, but I will go after what looks interesting. Everybody at my peers are robot automatons and I'm the only person that doesn't cater to "well the auditor will ask" So what let the auditor ask let them earn their pay and not have me give them workpapers on a silver platter lined up pretty. Oh, and anybody ever had a boss mention "please change the word *on* to *in*"?. My sentence was something about "will be expected in/on July 22". I may have blown a head gasket and went into limp mode the rest of the day.

I feel better now.

 

"He's got upper management written all over him"

 

It's an unfortunate, inaccurate name. It should be called "doing the job I'm paid for". Long ago, when there was loyalty on both sides, then it made sense to always give more. You were actually part of a team, not just figuratively speaking like you are now. There is no loyalty to the employee in big companies anymore so there should be none from the workers. If they can fire xx number of employees and either offshore the work to people who'll work for very little, or pile it on others plates, they will do it.

I agree with this, learned about the cog-in-the-wheel mentality long ago and now find it liberating. I work hard during works hours (just had my perf eval and got "exceeded expectations" and my manager said I was her go-to), but shut it off at the end of the workday.

Funny, the company I work for is healthcare but is also a giant corporation, so no getting away from it.


So I do want to say that while there are very frustrating things that happen, I like my job and especially like my direct manager. It's mostly the upper management, the things they do and say that are most frustrating. I came to terms with it long ago, that there is a Yin and Yang balance to it, and decided at that point I couldn't/wouldn't buy into the corporate cheerleading, company-is-life, I-will-work-2-jobs-for-1-pay mentality. I do the job I was hired to do and do it well, in the time I am allotted, the I do other things. Like come to a truck forum to do a little venting and commiserating! Lol

 

True, no getting away from it. Not sure what you do in healthcare but as an RN I think it's just interesting how our frustrations intersect. And I agree its mostly upper management. I like to think that I get along well with my direct manager but when things start trickling down do they ever

 

Some might say that if you work in healthcare these days, you are working in Corporate America.

 

I should expand on that. People were up in arms about CEO pay so the push was to give CEOs more compensation in stock so they would be good stewards of the company. Instead they said "shareholder value" is most important because that's how the C-suite gets paid. Now everything is done to inflate stock prices for the short-term which maxes out the C-Suite compensation while screwing workers.

Don't get me started when PE money buys a company. Employees get the shaft always.....