One crucial difference - in a corporate your superiors may quit, get promoted, transferred, re-orgged. If nothing else there is always skip level manager whom y

One crucial difference - in a corporate your superiors may quit, get promoted, transferred, re-orgged. If nothing else there is always skip level manager whom you can take your complaints to. In quite a few progressive corporates I have heard managers very actively manage (in a good way) favorable feedback from their reports during performance review time.