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Personal alternative, started to work for a family business with a grey collar culture where people know each other. No need to read weird self-help literature.
by Barrin92 3y ago
Personal alternative, started to work for a family business with a grey collar culture where people know each other. No need to read weird self-help literature. If 'networking' is a central part of anyone's job personally I'd start picking a less Patrick Bateman-esque workplace.
The best way to not have to deal with backstabbing and conniving is just to work with people who are in it for the long term and where that behavior does not pay off.
- verve_rat 3y agoWhat is a grey collar culture? Somewhere between blue and white, or something else?
- Barrin92 3y agoyes, a work environment where you have a sort of mix of white and blue collar culture both individually and collectively rather than the "manager on the top floor, worker at the bottom" thing. Companies where the boss is also able and willing to grab some tools and get to work. Flat hierarchies and informal relationships, not the 15 levels to the top ladder thing. Prototypical example is a German or Japanese small/medium business, but software startups often are a lot like it too. They just lose it generally as they blow up and transition to the typical US/British management style.