Do you enjoy the corporate environment?

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At the moment I'm [unfortunately] on a temporary secondment within a global bank, having been here for a month so far I feel I'm in a position to express my annoyance at the culture and politics.

Coming from an agency side background, I find it tedious, unfriendly and totally annoying.

For example, pulling staff away from their work to have pointless two hour long meetings everyday; just to discuss how better to improve project management processes, deadline handling and tasks everyone already has digitally been assigned to, is just ridiculous. There's definitely more time spent standing around the post-it note walls than there is actually doing work. Any opportunity to stand around the post-it wall is jumped at.

The place is full of weedy little men who revel in any opportunity they get to tell management you aren't following the appropriate processes to the letter.

It's really opened my eyes to a world I'd rather not be involved in. I've only met two people so far that I'd actually sit down and have a drink with.

Anyone agree or feel the opposite? I don't mind being shot down for my opinion - could just be the banking industry but it's hellish in my eyes.
 
Maybe it's just the banking environment?

I've worked in the corporate side of Mobile Telecoms, and currently Travel, and haven't suffered from anything you mention. I'm probs just lucky with the companies I have worked for.
 
I'd imagine banking attracts a lot of people interested in greed that are ruthless brown-noses willing to destroy any competition they have on the climb to the top
 
The Corporate world is full of red tape I'm afraid. You'll find very few companies to work for which "take a risk" and perform real work based upon recommendations from technical people. Far too often you have none technical management taking technical decisions as that's how it works.
 
I don't think it's just the banking industry as potentially almost any industry could have businesses with a terrible culture. Maybe just be thankful it's only temporary and you've got the opportunity to move on relatively easily.

Depending on the size of the business you might find that different sub units have a very different culture so sometimes a move to another team sorts out your issues.
 
What's worse is small companies thinking they are corporate and acting how they believe a corporate does.

Krooton you left CPW?
 
No.

I'm sick and tired of the office environment, 9 years I have worked in offices as IT. I'm done. 30th December I'm off on travels and it can't come sooner.
 
I'm in asset management. Love the environment, tbh. Pretty flat management structure at the firm I work for, so we are encouraged to call it if we think they're regressing into the widely reviled management stereotype.
 
anticonscience said:
What's worse is small companies thinking they are corporate and acting how they believe a corporate does.

Krooton you left CPW?
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Yep, July last year :)

They made everyone in my department in the London office redundant (apart from me). I then stopped enjoying the place, as my colleagues were awesome, so I walked in to a better role elsewhere.
 
Show me something that hasn't already been parodied in dilbert.

My favourite is still the hourly status meetings that take an hour ... and the PHB doesn't understand why nothing gets done.
 
I have worked in UK mobile comms corporate and US mobile comms corporate and the culture is so radically different.

In the UK I saw exactly what OP is talking about whereas in the US there is much more productivity and a lot more freedom, however people are expected to innovate and be a lot more self-starting.
 
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Currently working at Nissan in the IS department (50/50 with contractors and perm staff), it's really pleasant here. But yep, some do seem to be in meetings allll of the time to the point where I wonder what they actual do other than plan.
 
I'm glad to see at least some other corporate places are a bit more pleasant.
peterwalkley said:
Show me something that hasn't already been parodied in dilbert.

My favourite is still the hourly status meetings that take an hour ... and the PHB doesn't understand why nothing gets done.
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Exactly. There's always so much pressure on the teams performance aswell yet they're all pulled away from work to stand around and write on the wall. Mid-day discussions can last a couple of hours and from an outside perspective, they generally tend to be an absolute waste of time. Nothing is achieved other than 'yes, we have work to get on with, let's get it done'.

semi-pro waster said:
I don't think it's just the banking industry as potentially almost any industry could have businesses with a terrible culture. Maybe just be thankful it's only temporary and you've got the opportunity to move on relatively easily.

Depending on the size of the business you might find that different sub units have a very different culture so sometimes a move to another team sorts out your issues.
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Yeah, it looks like I've just been unlucky with this place. The poor mentality seems to have filtered down from the top and now everyone is useless.
 
I don't enjoy it, but I don't hate it.

We do have too many meetings and lots of things about it I find pointless and a waste of time, but management have to find some way to keep themselves busy.
 
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