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

[sethg]

I thought these monitoring systems became much less popular once someone pointed out how much time the executives were spending looking at porn sites.

[mortuus.livejournal.com]

I had a conversation Monday on a similar topic. I'd stopped by to visit a friend and fellow employee, and she had just finished with her yearly review and was in a bad mood. She is a very good employee, has brought a huge new task to our company, and does a lot of extra work to maintain and update our Company X databases (which are incredibly important to track all of the tasks and money). However, a couple times she was an hour or so late entering her time into the timecard database, so he marked her entire review down for that.

So I'd mentioned this to another friend and fellow employee, and we ended up discussing how it doesn't matter if you market like mad and bring in new tasks, and it doesn't matter if you have a great reputation that brings in work, and it doesn't matter if you are an excellent employee. I understand if consistently disregarding administrative policies is an issue, but if you are an hour late inputting your time a couple times over an entire year, it is hardly reasonable to see that as equal to or greater than the other stuff.

[dmnsqrl.livejournal.com]

What's truly sad is when you find a small company using big company policies because... well.. the big companies use them and they're successful.. so.. ergo...