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Originally Posted by ShortNCuddlyAm
It took me much longer than that to understand what where I work does! And that's with them giving staff a booklet so they could explain what the company did! (With things like "what you might say if you are asked in the pub")
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i had a job in a place where i could have used a booklet like that. i still don't know what they did !
(i only worked there a few weeks, it was a temp job).
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Originally Posted by Verencat
Those corporate environments can really get to you. A couple years ago I was a supervisor in a call center that collected data to do tv and radio ratings. They had us follow training after training in new personnel management techniques, where we would have to categorize each of your team mates according to fixed criterias, and then only address them with the vocabulary suggested for their "type" of personality. I couldn't deal with it, even more considering they changed the official cie method at least twice a year!
All of this to say: I like fixed, basic and traditional titles and work environments, so I need to understand what I do, and why I do it.
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Originally Posted by ShortNCuddlyAm
 Urgh - sounds like a nightmare! |
that's putting it mildly !!!
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One of the best things about working in an IT dept is that most IT staff don't take that sort of thing seriously 
I'm usually the one asking the awkward questions on courses - things like "but what if the person you're trying to use this technique on also knows about it?"
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i see we are psychic twins.
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Originally Posted by ShortNCuddlyAm
Thankfully, I've never worked anywhere that's been too fussed by my general inclination to view conformity as optional at best. I'm not overtly non-conformist, which probably also helps, but my general view has always been that if it hinders me doing my job effectively then it gets ignored. |
i'm not agressively non-conformist (i mean i don't go out of my way to show it just on principle) but i don't make any effort to hide it either. i also have a real problem with authority (i like to question it... and i have a hard time with rigid hierarchies where someone is supposed to be "above" me), and i consider that respect should be earned and can be lost if you don't continue to deserve it. you can imagine how things went for me in corporate-land.
(it's part of why now i work freelance !
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Mind you, I did once get told that a vanilla-scented perfume was inappropriate in a supermarket  (This from a manager who was drenched in something like Poison...)
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seems like vanilla is more appropriate than poison anywhere food is involved !
