Office Politics

It's been awhile since i have posted anything, but i haven't really had anything to talk about lately but this topic has been intriguing me lately. Since i have been working in corporate america the past 2 1/2 years i have noticed that no matter what you do, management is going to find some way to screw you over in more ways then one. Obviously this year has not been a good one for my company due to economy issues as much as they want to say thats not an excuse, well let's face the facts, when EVERY customer of yours is NOT shipping, what can you do? Well the management answer is "Why haven't we had business to replace the down ones?" Well let's look at that question, if we had business to replace it, then we would be up this year and it wouldn't matter about the current customers that are down. If everyone is this country is Cutting jobs, then obviously they aren't going to be producing much and in return they won't have anything to ship. Its a vicious cycle. Why can't they just face the facts and realize the ECONOMY SUCKS!!! No instead they think there is something internal we can do, like analyze EVERY single productivity number you can possibly imagine and figure out where we can move people around to make things better and since your move your numbers are going to be down till you get adjusted to your new area which takes a good 3 months to settle in, and then oh wait "they well we think you will be a better fit with this area," but don't worry you will be taken care of at the end of year. So now the end of the year comes and they (management) finally faces the fact and see's are numbers are even worse and will try and still pay there employees. So what do they do, they give you stock instead of your bonus which doesn't vest for 5 years and then you can touch the shares till 2 years after that so that's 7 years you won't even see that money. OH and then if you leave the company during this period or get fired, your stock is forfeited. What kind of crock of BS is that? Which is basically saying to me "we don't have the money so here is an IOU that will pay you in 7 years" Which if i remember a couple months ago is what took down the financial sector because everyone bought stuff on credit and the trust that they would pay them back. I swear it never surprises me....well i guess that's it for now,

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