Corporate America – Wasting everyone’s time since 1932

Do you work at a company that does so many stupid things you wonder how they ever make any money? Let’s talk about the “big city” corporate culture for a moment. I work for a company that started in a small town (mine) and got big so “they” (senior management morons) decided to move corporate HQ to another state. They couldn’t possibly leave it in my little town because there weren’t enough “qualified” workers in this area so they went to the big city. After they got to the big city, though, a strange thing happened. They tripled their facility expenses, tripled their salary expenses, and (oops) didn’t triple their profits. About all that happened when they went to the big city was waste a lot of money and go bankrupt. Now the company is out of bankruptcy so they moved HQ to another big city. I wouldn’t care except that I have to deal with all the big city employees who make twice what I do to do half as much work. Sure, they put in “12 hour” days, but that includes 4 hours of driving time to travel 12 miles. They show up late and leave early on a regular basis to beat the gridlock and work from home. As far as I can tell, “working from home” means not working at all but making sure you send an e-mail at 8:30 pm so everyone will see the date/time stamp and think you’re working late. The way I see it, if we’d just leverage our synergies, hone our resources, regulate our metrics, huddle, touch base, reach out, think outside the box, give 110 percent, and create a value-add to our service base, we’ll be just fine.