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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
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 !  ) |
That's pretty much how I feel - and I find that it's the people in the middle of the corporate ladder and who feel insecure about their own prospects, who have the most problem with it. (I once had a manager tell me I couldn't tell the CEO he was wrong about something, purely because he was the CEO and I wasn't.
In my worldview, the CEO is just another work colleague) I've always treated hierarchical structures as basically being flat - I have no idea where that came from, but certainly I was doing it at school. OK - it means my career hasn't reached any giddy heights, but it also means I can look myself in the eye and feel I have retained a large degree of my integrity.