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> Including my boss, who was fired when he was attending his mother's funeral. And people wonder why big companies are generally loathed.
by macintux 5y ago
> Including my boss, who was fired when he was attending his mother's funeral.
And people wonder why big companies are generally loathed.
- systemvoltage 5y agoThis is a false generalization. It’s simply not true that this happens everywhere in big companies. Seems like a rare case.
- EdwardDiego 5y agoI think it can happen in every big company, you always have pockets of great culture and absolutely terrible culture once you reach a certain size. But I agree, it's a definite overgeneralisation to say that all big companies are terrible everywhere. Having worked for very small companies, and very big companies, there's very much pros and cons to both. In a small company, culture is far easier to nurture and guide consistently across the entire company. But then, in a small company, you're also far more likely to meet nepotism based hiring - "my wife's friend who has worked nothing but retail needs a job, and we need an HR manager" . And also far more likely to work for CEOs who make decisions that adversely impact employees lives dramatically, because they were in a mood, with few, if any, checks and balances. After all, the new HR manager is a close friend of their wife, their families have been holidaying together for years, and they don't want to jeopardise that friendship by going against the CEO. I'm not saying that these don't exist in big companies, but generally they have more people in the mix who can say "hmm, let's hold up a second on this". And to be fair to small companies, they're great for moving into new positions.
- yokoprime 5y agoPlease let me know which company this is so i can avoid giving them any money.