Posted on 07/29/2018 6:35:33 AM PDT by vannrox
Edited on 07/29/2018 8:56:07 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
Twenties are the time when most of us take up our first jobs. Even though it’s great to finally start earning and ‘be on your own’, corporate life is nothing like we imagine it to be in our younger years. It’s stressful and unrewarding. Here are 18 harsh truths about corporate life nobody will ever tell you.
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or punished for it by the envious
Sounds to me like the whining of someone destined to a life of mediocracy.
Start your own business.
Oh, for Pete’s sake. None of these are true all the time, everywhere.
Now suck it up and get back to work :-)
All the above are true of being self employed also.
The truth is some should be employees, some should be employers and some will never work even if you beat and starve them....................
sheesh, start your own or find a skill you love and fix the damned pipes and charge exorbitant fees.
Many of those are false. At best, partial truths. Life would truly suck if they were true - and my life hasn’t sucked. I’ve had a lot of coworkers who were also friends. I’ve been in a lot of meetings that proved very valuable. And I don’t think I’ve ever taken a job ONLY for the money.
Personal Services Incorporated.
Never volunteer for ANYTHING.
If you want to make money working in corporate, take a job, learn as much as you can, in three years apply to another company for more money with your newly marketable skill set.
Repeat until you are a corporate officer or have bumped your head on the Peter Principle, or until you have found an acceptable balance between the grief and the pay. You still won't be "rich" however. Unless you're on commission. Then all bets are off.
Otherwise learn a trade or start your own business.
80% of the work is done by 20% of the people.
The person who wrote it has their expectations and priorities wrong.
You are there to contribute to the corporation, not to have them look out for your well being.
If YOU pay THEM, that’s different. I read this and wanted to whack the author on the back of the head.
Sounded like a Millennial, with apologies to millennials who don’t subscribe to this.
As another poster stated, start your own business, and you can treat your employees the way you see fit.
Unless you are a woman, minority or homosexual, Number 15 is dead nuts accurate!
You can add to the list that people rarely quit over pay. It is likely the work environment or personality conflict that causes people to leave.
My 58 year old wife suffered a heart attack this week. I could give examples of almost each one of those rules. She worked late on Friday because of a “crisis” ( that she warned was coming, but the bosses did not agree) and then was up at six on Saturday morning working on it again.
By ten AM we were in the ER.
And she asked me not to be angry at her boss.
Yeah, right.
I had a mentor at an early age that warned me about falling in love with a company, because a company cannot love back. It IS possible to be passionate about your work, but that is for your own benefit.
“6. You will be dealing with a dozen tasks other than what you were initially hired for. Your scope of work will only keep increasing.”
Maybe because you were hired as a problem solver? Serouus problems can exist outside the scope of your job description and job title. But the problems need solutions.
Stay away from sidlers. Try making them carry tic-tacs.
HR is for gossip mongers who can’t do any real work. They minimally are entry-level SJWs.
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