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23 reasons not to work for a large company

 
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21 June 2012, 14:23

Working in a large company, you not only grow fat, get stuck and fall in love Friday

Career growth is abolished

It's worth pondering how many bosses lie above you to understand that you will need too much energy to overcome the company's internal resistance. Playing - get out, working - hardly.

Initiative is punishable

To push through the simplest change that an ordinary person who never worked in a corporation seems to be nonsense - changing the letter in the menu or correcting the creative process - you will have to spend tremendous efforts. Most likely, when you win in your enterprise, you will no longer receive any moral satisfaction.

Will have to be silent

If you are an expert in online advertising or just know who is who in the market, and you are taken to a large corporation, then you will be silent for the time of work. You can not say that your product is bad - it's unethical in relation to colleagues, that the product of competitors is bad - unethical in relation to competitors, you can not comment at all - it's better to be silent, otherwise you will offend someone. All colleagues are very valuable.

Team spirit

Team spirit, synergy, in a single impulse, all as one, only together we can ... Such you will listen very much. At the command responsibility you will learn to hide your incompetence or inexperience. The most miserable project will be covered by a working group with a group responsibility, for which the guilty can not be found, and who receives the reward.

Emotions inside

In offices, it is not customary to be jealous and happy. Those. All this will remain inside you, gradually fading, but you will stop showing it all on your face. Boredom is your new mask.

Sincerely rejoice at victories you do not have to do

You will say "Well done guys from the transport! VO give! "" Cool WE have a browser, "and you're from the accounting department. You do not know that you are not at work, but you are happy. Your projects will run less and less often, and you need to enjoy something. Let and with the stone face of an office worker.

Low salary

You can sell gas with megaliths, internet terabytes, and software products in thousands, but you will have zarpatata, which will provide you with shelter and simple food. You will also have a couple of holidays. In the best case, you will also be given 2-3 business trips abroad, which are designed just to improve your image in the industry, but the company will still benefit greatly from them. For you it's just a substitute for money.

Stop understanding the real course of things

A month ago, you were annoyed that the agreement agreed on a month, and someone was preparing a commercial proposal for a week. You will become the same and sincerely cease to understand the real course of things.

The process is more important than the result

This particular kind of communications is owned by every motherly office employee. You will begin to generate many, many respondents in the CC field in any correspondence until the issue becomes insoluble, and the name of the person who created the problem will be forgotten.

You will learn not to listen to people who talk to you. Most experienced office workers, as soon as they start talking, are stuck in a smartphone or laptop. You will learn how to constantly check your mail and believe that you are VERY busy and you are VERY much dependent on you.

Useless negotiations

"Let's go to the meeting!" - And whom to take? - Yes, take all! »Yes, you will collect mini-audience of extras who will check the mail while you talk about anything until the next batch of experienced office workers kick you out to do the same.

Frequent delays

You will be late everywhere - to internal meetings, to the checkpoint where partners or contractors are waiting for visiting meetings. And you will not have problems with this - forgot, met a colleague in the corridor, traffic jams - you'll believe that all this is the normal reasons for being late.

Love toilets and coffee

Coffee in the morning, coffee before noon, coffee before dinner, coffee after dinner, coffee up to 5 o'clock tea, coffee before going home. If you smoke, then add as many coffee times as you smoke. Toilets are saved when you just do not feel like drinking coffee. If there is a smoking room, it means there will be a main headquarters, a meeting room, a rally-room.

Learn to convince yourself

But you will either not work at all or squeeze out 2-3 hours from strength. You will learn to convince yourself that you are doing the right job, that you are overwhelmed and everyone notices it. Although secretly everyone knows that they are surrounded by loafers and therefore behave the same way. The main thing is not to cause suspicion that you have something else in life and work is only a means of achieving.

Faith in the best

Working in very "rich" companies you will get better equipment, better furniture and a better office, but you will start to feel that you are supposed to have a car at the company's expense. Logic is not there, you just start to believe it. You will also believe that you are supposed to have an apartment, but later.

Wage increase

Work you will be less productive. You, like moss, will accumulate unnecessary tasks and rallies, but you will always feel that you deserve more and raise a patch - for you this is a self-evident event.

Syndrome of office worker

You will begin to ache more and more often with colds. You will quickly be told that these are all air conditioners and do not have to worry - do not lose the same insurance. You will be much ill and get pleasure from it.

Excess weight and ugly body

Again, there will be ready-made explanations - stress, a sedentary lifestyle. But this is all because your body and brain will do not require a lot of calories work, you will be with coffee-points to carry sugar-strewed pechenyushki, which will be consumed 10 times a day with coffee and sugar. At lunch time, you will eat tasteless business lunches, which are prepared from the flaws of yesterday's cuisine. This food is cooked without love, and therefore it is not useful.

Love it Friday

For a private entrepreneur, Friday is horror, business ceases to work for 2 days. For an office professional, this is the best day of the week - beer, songs and dances are possible only on this day.

Get used to shame and love corporate parties

The topic is not important. You will consume alcohol and food for pennies, but you will be able to believe that something special has been done for you. You will get used to the shame and over the years of working in the Corporation and will know more about the co-workers than their spouses. And you will like it. About the same you can gossip.

Loss of startup spirit

All these incomprehensible people, who do not make such important products as yours, will cause contempt. And you will always know that in the startup you will succeed the first time, just you do not need it. You are different, different, successful ... Already.

Will get bogged down in debt

In the beginning of work you will want a car, like your colleagues. You will buy it on credit, being sacredly convinced that "Well, I will not take an apartment for 30 years". After several years of systemic appearance of money on a plastic card, your sense of self-preservation becomes dull and you will get into such debts that seemed impossible yesterday.

Congratulations, there is no way back for you now, sweet coffee lover and corporate parties.

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