This post is about why corporate American sucks. I love my life and my work and my family, so I am not some bitter guy, on the contrary. I am an unrepentant capitalist. However, there is no way you are going to tell me that corporate America does not suck.
Corporate America sucks
Why does corporate American suck? This is what you will most likely find:
You will be surrounded by jerks. People in corporate America are seeking a lifestyle (bonuses) rather than creating something of real value. If they could create something of real value they would. But the reality is they can not for lack of courage or brains. So you find greed and arrogance ruling the kingdom of corporate America and the honest hardworking guys gets knocked around like a corporate pawn. You are a corporate serf who can fly beneath the radar, if you are lucky. However, more likely you are a corporate foot soldier who will get medals or sacrificed when needed.
The start of your corporate service
At the start of working for one of these great companies you will be working 13 hours a day doing really boring tasks, mostly in excel. You will be proud that you have become an excel power user. Needless to say what you will be doing will be incredibly boring. This is super, when you were a child did you dream of becoming a corporate excel power user foot solders?
You move up corporate America
You personal morals will start to be tested. You will be asked to get more out of your ‘team’ than is reasonable. People will sacrifice their God given time on this earth to work for the ‘team’ on a project that will include nights and weekends. If you are in a billable position you will have more pressure to bill clients more and more for less and less work, otherwise the partners or directors will not move you to their level. The main thing is people will spend more time with their ‘corporate family’ (its rediculous when company’s refer to themselves as ‘family’, its pure manipulation) than their real family. There is a lot of dishonesty in corporate America. If you are in any position of management you know what I mean, or just read the headlines.
Corporate America sucks
A Corporate warrior’s life sucks
People who work for corporate America have a higher rate of depression, divorce, affairs, drinking, gambling, betrayal of friends and trust, etc. You will gain weight and not lose it unless you quite your desk job. Corporate warriors do not see their kids. They are all saying they are saving for their children’s education. However, I would rather spend time with my kids from 0 to 15 when their IQ and social skills are developed, rather than send them off to some famous university. In a word life in corporate America sucks.
Corporate America sucks because it will make you a worst kind of person
I could go on here, but I below I started a list of ABCs. I wanted to do the whole alphabet, but I invite you to add your own comments for additional letters of the alphabet.
- Arrogance - People making your feel like they know more than and that you are screwed up. This tactic is especially common with people who are insecure about their own IQ.
- Belligerence – aggressiveness psychological warfare between people which management sometimes even encourages as a way to see who is better for the job. The most primitive people win.
- Control – this includes impatience, pettiness, micro managing your life, with the goal of personal glory from the fruit of your hard work.
- Dumb – working around people who think they know, will make you start feeling the same and therefore close your mind to new ideas.
- Envy, ego and exaggeration in corporate America.
What are the alternatives to corporate America?
There are many, the US was founded on rugged individualism and I recommend you start exploring the alternatives as this will not only make for a better society, but also make you a better person. In my opinion of course. Even if you do choose to stay in corporate America, try not to sacrifice your family time, morals all for your stupid boss.
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13 responses to Corporate America sucks
The worst thing is when you work on a team, yet everyone is just in it for themselves. Or when management breathes down your back for every little thing and gets all stressed out instead of remaining cool and calm and dealing with it like an adult. Or how about when they raise the healthcare premiums, yet supply Krispy Kreams 3 times a week? And you can get laid off or sued for any little thing now. All the jobs are through temp agencies to save corporate costs and give the employee less and less. Yep, it sucks!
Very exact comment about why corporate America sucks. It is very hard to be plugged into the Matrix of corporate America if you have a soul. I would do it again if I had to, but only if I had to.
All this creativity and productivity lost because people are too busy playing the company game. Therefore, the ones that rise to the top are often but not always those well versed at the game rather than proficient at their job.
I am just about to turn down a management position with my company. I just lost a very close and good friend, He was my Boss. He gave his life for this piece of sh_t company dealing with issues from employees that the Human resources department hired! What a waste of effort and time, Human resources, These are people who can’t do any thing else in life, They are unskilled people. They hire the people based on what they have on a piece of paper and 15 minutes of face time! Anybody can be Superman in that frame of time! I work with people with degrees and certificates from high-end Colleges, and they can not poor p_ss out of boot. Also, It truly amazes me at the amount of politics that you have to do just to feel as if you are part of the “family”. I have been with this company for 17 years, and I can’t stomach half the people I work with. I will lose my place in this “family”, but I don’t give a shit. It’s not a family I want to be in. I have a real Family, and I was looking when i found this job. Thank you for letting me vent..
Sean thank you very much about your comments on corporate American sucks. I know people personally who have given their lives for the ‘corporate family’ and made sacrifices with their real family only to be fired. I know people who have died young, largely from too much work stress. Great comment.
Yes, and yes. A thousand times yes. I used to work for corporate. It was a nightmare. I felt like I had forfeited my soul . . . and not even for a decent wage!
I was shuffled from department to department to department under their “cross-training” bull, which is just that, bull. When I said I was tired of moving, they wrote me up; then got mad at me because I refused to sign it.
So pretty much my responsibilities increased, but never my authority. I was promised over and over that I had so much “potential”. Well, potential shemential. I’d had enough of that nonsense.
I resigned a few months later. I don’t regret it, and hope I don’t ever have to work in corporate again.
Corporate climate is not that bad if you consciously join a growing startup at the age of 20, get some stocks which you sell at the age of 25 and then you are a free man and can start thinking about establishing a family.
But when you already have a family, it’s a completely different story. I had a journey with a tech startup from Tel Aviv and I was one of two men there having a wife and a child. And it just wasn’t a place for a family guy.
I believe if you are going to join a start up, let it be yours. I have had a few offers to join reasonable start ups. I would rather do my own thing on my own terms with my own creativity.
However, I would say working for a small company is much better than working for a large. Working for a small company anything is possible. In a large company many people are just hanging out and trying to fly under the Radar and keep their job.
More reasons why corporate America is wrong
Frustration – you’ll have a lot but don’t ever express it unless it is over a “low performer’s” lack of conviction to the company’s mission
Gullibility – Mutually exclusive objectives, departments working at cross-purposes and policy u-turns that all must be accepted as necessary to meet “business needs.”
Homogeneity – everyone should be able to complete the same task with the same competency in the same amount of time yet, contribute “fresh thoughts” when asked that differ from those offered by “peers.”
Interrogations – You will be asked why you made a mistake rather than informed that you made one. If you are reporting an error or problem, be prepared to be asked why you didn’t gather 3 to 5 pieces of information that are well beyond the purview of your position.
Jargon – incorporate words, phrases and slogans that are completely divorced from their linguistic meaning so as to mean nearly the opposite in their corporate setting.
Anyone else?
Rico brilliant. This is corporate America.
Life in a corporation in the USA
I love how they continuously pile unrelated tasks to your daily duties which just get in the way of what really matters. Then, when it’s unrelated they’ll just ‘re-write’ your job description to encompass any damned thing they’d like. Don’t think you’ll be getting compensated for your hard work and dedication either, nope, that’ll wind up in some bean counters bonus pool. I dislike working for these people. I feel like I’ve died and went to corporate hell prison.
The worst thing about being a corportate slave is you will never get that time back. That is why I unplugged from the matrix. Money comes and goes but time only goes.
Inspired by Ayn Rand and corportate America
It’s not to say that working in corporate America does not suck but this is the part I don’t like, everyone has a choice and most corporate monkeys don’t understand that they chose their lot in life so why are they bringing their envy, complaints, arrogance, micro-managing, backstabbing behavior to work? They could have more than freely chosen to work in a mom& pop hardware store instead of joining a corporation. It was a rhetorical question because like all college grads, I fell into the lure of monetary rewards vs all other psychic benefits. There are still some good people left in the corporate world who need the money, enjoy the work, still have their souls in tact, and maybe vie for more and hopefully will leave the corporate world at some point and start their own businesses but for the rest of the undeserving lot… i think it’s a disgrace to the great men (Rockerfeller, JP Morgan, Vanderbilt) who created these industries. I would never go back to work in a corporation only for the sheer fact, 1) I have the means not to currently and 2) I am a capitalist and need to be around those who strive for greatness on their own terms. As per Ayn Rand, the world is only made up of two groups of people… those who create and those who loot. The majority are looters who can be found working across most of corporate America.
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