For people who are/were working for corporations or big companies, please kindly give your thoughts on this...

Question

Can u rate your working experiences in a corporation or big company from 1 to 10 (1 being the best working environment --- good salary,benefits,co-workers,bosses & overall assessment --- and 10 being the most stressful or hardest) and if it is worth your life to work there or not?

I'm currently in college right now taking up Computer Info. System and I do have dreams of working for a corporation or big company. I really wanted to be financially successful someday but without compromising my overall health(mental & physical). Has anyone been on this kind of situation before or now? Thanks in advance for your response.

Answer 1

Some companies will hire you and work you until you can't give anymore and then they will spit you out like old worn out chewing gum. When you have to take time off, you will be docked pay even though you put in 45 hours a week all year.

In a large company, you are only a number. Your manager will be a moron that either was able to politic his way to the position, or was promoted there because he was in the way everywhere else. If you do have a good and smart manager, he will be removed from the company payroll either by force or his own free will.

If you are a producer, you will be seen, but not rewarded as merit raises can not exceed xx% per year.

If the company is bought out, or a new CEO is brought in, you are at risk of being fired or laid off because the company needs to make the numbers so the BOD can be paid their million dollar bonuses. (I worked for a company that was bought out. The VPs thought we had too much dead weight, so they fired everyone of the branch managers across the country. The only guy that wasn't fired had incriminating pictures of the VP with a hooker in a strip joint. Our manager was the best sales guy in the area, so when he was hired by another company, he took all of his clients with him leaving those of us left behind sitting on our thumbs).

A company man is expected to work during lunch, after 5 and on weekends when required - for no compensation. (I got called in on a Friday that I was supposed to take vacation. My spouse was sitting in the car from 3:00 to past 7:00 waiting for me. At 5:15, the boss calls me in his office to tell me what a crummy employee I was because he screwed up a project I was working on [I had taken a medical absence for a workman's comp accident and this was the end of the 1st week back at work]. So, instead of waiting until the next Monday, I had to go in and wait for him to get through doing his manager stuff. It was after 5, so he and my supervisor were blasting me telling me how bad I screwed up. I almost walked out the door, because I had to drive for 5 hours to get to an appointment. The bottom line, it sucked). (The same manager planned a meeting with a client and regulators on a holiday once (3:00 pm on Good Friday). I had to be there and did not get paid for it.

If you get a bonus at Christmas, it will come late or not at all. So, you have to mortgage the house to pay for gifts. When you do get it, it will only be 10% of what you were hoping for because they will take too much taxes out of it.

This was how it was for me working as an environmental consultant for a fortune 500 company many years ago.


For true freedom, work for yourself.

Answer 2

Yes and no.Somedays are okay with less stress.As a cashier I have to deal with all sorts of people.With hours cut back that can leave us shorthanded upfront.No because I would rather be a stockperson.It's busier work and does not depend on ringing customers out.Also we have to keep up a ring tender everyday.