Anyone dislike corporate jobs? Am I the only one?

[purbeast0]

Yeah I'm wondering wtf "being in corporate" even means. I just mentioned large companies in my previous post because there was some chatter about that.

 

[rcpratt]

Jesus Christ you post about your job a lot.

Maybe I'm the black sheep, but I can't complain too much about corporate life. I work for a 10,000+ employee company, but we're a relatively local business, so I can't relate to this "I've never met my manager" stuff. Yeah, there's corporate politics to deal with, but my company at least pretends to care about their employees. They committed to not laying anyone off during the recession and to this day. Of course, the business I'm in provides for a bit more stability than the average corporation.

 

[snoopy7548]

I've never worked in what I consider a "corporate" job. Even for my co-ops during college, I worked at small companies. I've worked at the same place, a smaller company with less than 500 employees, for over ten years and have no plans to leave anytime soon.

To me, corporate = large company where the dress code is business casual and you work in a cube 90% of the time. You get to dress down on Fridays and spend more time in meetings than hours working each week, and dozens of co-workers come and go without you even meeting them. You're just a number. That's just not for me.

Where I work now allows you to put on different hats and move around. You're not chained to a cube unless you want to be, and we manufacture/build our own products in-house so we are always involved in the manufacturing process. As a design engineer, you pretty much see and have a hand in everything - from concept to design to debugging to manufacturing to test, and everything in between. If there is a manufacturing issue, you work with the manufacturing/quality and sometimes mechanical engineers on addressing it. If there is a test issue, you work with the test engineer on fixing it. It's a great place to be if you're the type to get your hands dirty rather than sitting at a desk and simulating designs 24/7.

 

[Zeze]

First can you define what is "corporate" in your mind?

I worked for a mega accounting firm - which is ultimately a partnership though, not a corporation.

Or do you just mean a "large company" of 10,000+ employees?

I guess anything can be a corporate across all industry.

I guess I'm just looking for someone doing unusually cool or interesting jobs than being a cubicle monkey.

 

[Mr.IncrediblyBored]

"Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar."

 

[ultimatebob]

"Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar."

You know, there a few people who claim to like their jobs. Something tells me that most of the people who think like that aren't janitors or fast food workers, though.

 

[DaWhim]

I was in the corporate world for about 5 years doing banking. The job itself was just boring and meaningless.

When I first had this job in 2007, after about 1 month into the job, everyone was called into a big conference with a dude from the high up basically saying the company needed to save money so the department would be moving to Pittsburgh. I was too young to understanding what was going on, but the faces of the people were just simply as depressed as fvck, it scared the hell out of me. It was a room full of depressing people given that these 30-40 people have been working at this firm for 30-40 years and probably don't have a college degree, probably not even high school diploma.

That was when I knew I need to make the corporate world worked for me, not me working for them. I quit in about 8 months after that and my application to Mountbatten came through. It was a 1 year work abroad program that place you with a job in London.

My previous job was in taxes, so even though it was boring as hell, but the bright side of that would be job guarantee in tax season. It was morning like jobs looking for me around Nov/Dec. The following years would be I would take an assignment working 4-5 months a year until april 15th, then I would have about $20k in cash (after tax) to travel the world.

The fun last until I met a girl and started a business. Actually, it was more like I started the business first, then at some points that my business grew enough so I didn't need to go back to to that.

I haven't been living in the States for about 5 years. It is a bigger world out there, surely more opportunities too.

 

[nakedfrog]

You know, there a few people who claim to like their jobs. Something tells me that most of the people who think like that aren't janitors or fast food workers, though.

I enjoyed my time as a janitor.
Other than the time that someone had clearly not even made an effort to drop their deuce in the bowl (it was a bar, I came in mornings to clean up). I told the boss I wasn't being paid enough for that.

Also, fuck whoever decided popcorn night was a good idea.

 

[Zeze]

I enjoyed my time as a janitor.
Other than the time that someone had clearly not even made an effort to drop their deuce in the bowl (it was a bar, I came in mornings to clean up). I told the boss I wasn't being paid enough for that.

Also, fuck whoever decided popcorn night was a good idea.

I enjoyed my time as a janitor too but then it's a big exception because I was doing workstudy at $10/hr (which was a lot back then) to pay off my tuition. Sometimes, I did janitorial work, some times I was a PC lab printer guy (easiest $10/hr).

I kind of miss it.

 

[Mai72]

Also, life is short. It's never too late to look for another path. Those 30 years don't have to be like that.

That's if he even last that long. Heart attacks are very common among people who go to a job for years that they dislike. Think what that does to your immune system. Your well being. Your mental health.

Starting over is hard. Is it worth it? That's up to the person. That's why l love living a minimal lifestyle. No payments. They keep you stuck. You're stuck in the dreaded hamster wheel. Going to a job you dislike to only have to pay on things that you bought, but in reality can't afford. You have to do that over and over and over and over until you die. No thanks.

 

[Chaotic42]

You should file a change request and get the process owner and data owner to sign off on it.

 

[Johnny Ringo]

You should file a change request and get the process owner and data owner to sign off on it.

Now that is some funny shit there! That is as corporate as it gets in IT!

 

[ultimatebob]

You should file a change request and get the process owner and data owner to sign off on it.

What do I do if I don't know who the process owner is? I know... I'll just assign it to IT. They do all the real work anyway, everyone else just pushes these JIRA tickets back and forth to each other