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Sep. 16th, 2024 07:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kradeelavi had two events recently where i've wondered if there's some sort of "how to corporate 101" manual, kind of like my designer's resources but across all industries? similarly also kind of like moral mazes (one of my favorite books helpfully satirizing why managers are Like That) but more about the corp as a whole versus the manager-class specifically?
one was a team meeting where the rest of the design team was understandably annoyed about the CEO pushing some quasi-unrealistic deadlines and asking our boss if he can't just tell the big daddy CEO to not do that. afterwards, my boss was casually asking me in a 1:1 on how i thought that meeting went (i'm kind of his mole in some ways). and part of it was a genuinely quizzical look of '.... do they not understand I *can't* force the CEO to not do something he wants to do at the end of the day?"
(sadly, bro, no they don't. and that's why you're a VP and they're not.)
the other one was an incident where somebody left the company, and it *would* have been on good terms had he not let slip he was joining one of those massive conglomerates that's technically-operating-in-a-competitor-sense-but-sort-of. he immediately got hard ejected from all connections instead of the standard two weeks and a bunch of the younger team members pitched an absolute fit in (misplaced) solidarity.
and again, my boss exasperatedly had to say in a later team meeting 'you do know that's standard procedure in a corporation, right, you can't just verbally confirm you joined a competitor and expect to still have access (hint hint the way to handle that is to stay quiet until your 2 weeks are up)'
like, *I* get that because my dad was a small biz owner for ages and he filled me in on the "why" of that kind of institutional knowledge over the years but i can see how a lot of people would totally miss that knowlage, and i wish there was a pdf i could shove in some people's hands for the above situations.
one was a team meeting where the rest of the design team was understandably annoyed about the CEO pushing some quasi-unrealistic deadlines and asking our boss if he can't just tell the big daddy CEO to not do that. afterwards, my boss was casually asking me in a 1:1 on how i thought that meeting went (i'm kind of his mole in some ways). and part of it was a genuinely quizzical look of '.... do they not understand I *can't* force the CEO to not do something he wants to do at the end of the day?"
(sadly, bro, no they don't. and that's why you're a VP and they're not.)
the other one was an incident where somebody left the company, and it *would* have been on good terms had he not let slip he was joining one of those massive conglomerates that's technically-operating-in-a-competitor-sense-but-sort-of. he immediately got hard ejected from all connections instead of the standard two weeks and a bunch of the younger team members pitched an absolute fit in (misplaced) solidarity.
and again, my boss exasperatedly had to say in a later team meeting 'you do know that's standard procedure in a corporation, right, you can't just verbally confirm you joined a competitor and expect to still have access (hint hint the way to handle that is to stay quiet until your 2 weeks are up)'
like, *I* get that because my dad was a small biz owner for ages and he filled me in on the "why" of that kind of institutional knowledge over the years but i can see how a lot of people would totally miss that knowlage, and i wish there was a pdf i could shove in some people's hands for the above situations.
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Date: 2024-09-17 04:29 am (UTC)definitely would be helpful if there was a pdf like that, lol.