company culture

[cellio]

This Dilbert strip illustrates one of the key cultural differences between small companies and big companies.



Policy-makers see only policy; they often do not think about the messages they're sending. When they do, they often don't care.

Comments

[cellio]

Which was a nice way of sending several messages, one of which was "why work from home"?

Indeed. They misguidedly think that working from home benefits only the employee. Their loss.

If you make bad behavior impossible, how will you find the assholes who need firing? You'll make them look like me.

And then when you do find them (because they've found other ways to be assholes, not reformed), that just leads to even more policies that presume everyone is like that, sending the assholes off to find yet newer ways to behave... it never ends.

[goldsquare.livejournal.com]

Well, my morale at my company is sinking. Sigh.

We are about to institute some similar things. We are, however, in a different place - as our company/division is highly profitable, very necessary to their global strategy, and our mode of doing business requires punching large holes in their corporate IT procedures.

Nonetheless, it's going to be an ugly day here, someday. Soon.

[cellio]

Sounds unpleasant. I'm sorry you're being hit by stuff like this.