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#1 reason why I left the corporate world.

Why do I have to work 60+ hours a week? Why do I have to have a supervisor who doesn't have a college degree and got his position because he's buds with a VP? Why does the VP work 1 day in the office and 4 days at home in his 9,000 sqft home in West LA?

Why? Because fuck you. That's why.

Goran_K says

#1 reason why I left the corporate world.

Why do I have to work 60+ hours a week? Why do I have to have a supervisor who doesn't have a college degree and got his position because he's buds with a VP? Why does the VP work 1 day in the office and 4 days at home in his 9,000 sqft home in West LA?

Why? Because fuck you. That's why.

Mostly agree (of course there are exceptions as always). That's the reason why I have stayed shy of most of the big names despite getting interview requests from recruiters, hiring managers & VP on a regular basis. Of course that can happen in any sized company, but the "bigger" the names/companies the bigger the ego and games played. There are only a couple of outstanding small companies with no management bloat but still way beyond "startup pressure" that have a great work/life balance and down to earth people throughout all layers and they make that small segment of corporate world bearable and sometimes even enjoyable. It's funny when you see this type of behavior and then get a request with a youtube vid attached to it called "How to get hired at our awesome company." ;)

Another asshole CEO, so-called "job maker", who is just a prick that creates no wealth and has disdain for the slaves who do. Anyone who uses Patch can suck my schweddy balls.

I called AOL and told them to go fuck themselves after I heard about this asshole. Here's an even better story from the biggest cunt in Silicon Valley.

Talk about gall:
http://valleywag.gawker.com/revealed-sheryl-sandbergs-unpaid-intern-shame-1140422267

WTF is "Patch"? Never heard about it. Also surprised to hear that AOL is still alive.

Straw Man says

WTF is "Patch"? Never heard about it.

And that's all you need to know about it.

After seeing the patch redesign, I think Armstrong used the conference as an excuse to axe Lenz.

There's always the option for a communist party, er, government union job. They're great: shopping at the GUM store (or non-Obamacare healthcare), great working hours, and a luxury Soviet apartment (or pension plan). Just be the right race/ethnic group and/or gender (two-fer). Or maybe if you are a loyal collaborator and denounce your fellows, you can get in sometimes (also known as "The George Soros".)

The problem with socialism is that it isn't for everyone. Like the corporate world, there are winners or losers.

PolishKnight says

There's always the option for a communist party, er, government union job.

And there are ever so many communists and (ugh!) union members everywhere these days!

Our streets positively run with communists: they're as thick on the ground as Zoroastrians, Paracelsians, Viola da Gamba players/manufacturers, and farriers!

Man, the Patch 2.0 redesign is so bad. It looks like it's a wordpress theme or something.

Goran_K says

#1 reason why I left the corporate world.

Why do I have to work 60+ hours a week? Why do I have to have a supervisor who doesn't have a college degree and got his position because he's buds with a VP? ...

Why? Because fuck you. That's why.

Would it make you feel any better if the ahole who you can't stand had a college degree and flaunted that piece of paper in front of you all day long in a snobbish kind of way?

I remember in the old days many of us believed that if you took care of business, business would take care of you... now that I think about it... it probably was never really true in the first place for an every day employee.

FortWayne says

Would it make you feel any better if the ahole who you can't stand had a college degree and flaunted that piece of paper in front of you all day long in a snobbish kind of way?

No.

Goran_K says

Why? Because fuck you. That's why.

You need to friend up.

I avoid working in those environments as well. I just choose not to work there.

Why? Because I also they have the right to not want me to work there.

I don't do that shit at all. I'm the type of guy that if you're my manager and you're a total inept tool. I'm kicking down down the door of Tim Armstrong and having an unannounced chit chat with him. To let him know, I can't baby sit, managers. If a manager is incapable of ensuring quality control in my tasks then he's just in the damn way.

"Why do you have to do it that way?"

Is one good way to piss me off, if you're My boss.

I can respect...
"If you do that, then you'll fuck this over here..."

but some lame ass questioning my expertise when he's unqualified to comprehend my answer much less provide an alternative solution I refuse to suffer.