Big companies vs small companies
You wonder if there is any difference between the big and the small sweatshops. Yes, there are a lot of them.
First of all in the majority of the big sweatshops the employee is only a number, a head count if you may. It doesn’t matter if you are one of the few best in the world or one lazy SB, you are a number for them, if the company is making good profit and the shareholders are happy, you can stay there doing nothing, if the specter of the recession is near, it also doesn’t matter how good you are you will be let off only because they have to show numbers to the same shareholders. there is no mercy or no remorse even if you generated revenue of billions of dollars, no way Jose, you will be let go.
On the second hand, a big company - when is no recession have some advantages: good perks, good benefits, chances of growing with the company. Sometimes can be a good workplace, sometimes not. And to illustrate this:
It is a big, huge company in this world, a company that is well known, the bad thing about it - the internal policies… instead of promoting competition between different teams or between its employees and the outside world, it is demanding competition between members of the same team. And why is that, because all the employees know that it doesn’t matter what, the one with the worst accomplishments in a team will be layoff in February. You will say is a smart thing, this way the members of the team will figure out new products, better ones. Yes, but the human nature doesn’t work this way. The result of this kind of treatment headed towards your employees lead to total anarchy team members will not share that part of the project, or will delay in sharing it to others (normally, because the one delaying it will finish the job in time for the dead line and the other will not have enough time), will give false leads to the other team members, will… oh will do whatever it takes for him/her to have very good results and the others worst than his/hers.
This is an example of what happen in big companies, and I am sure you figured out what happen with that kind of company: less income, products that doesn’t work in the parameters, not too much innovation, and so, and so. The company is still there because it doesn’t have competition or the competition is weak, but in the future, I am predicting (if the weak competition will do a better job in treating its employees) that this company will lose first place and will go quick in second or even lower.
There are other examples about big companies that are sweatshops and are treating bad their employees, but about them in other posts.
The small company: it can be a hell or it can be family, I worked in quite a few ones where I was feeling like it was family, helping each other, also helping the company to make good money, great places to work even sometimes the workday was 16 hours or you had to work weekend, but when the work was finished all we got together had fun, days off - wonderful time.
On the other hand you can get in one that will be the hell on earth, the president that wants to know about every work minute, the manager that will always stay behind you and asking if you finished the job 5 minutes after he assigned to you and even if he/she knows that the job will take more than one month. The same CEO that will cont the hour when you got in, the minutes spent at the restroom, the minutes when you left heading home and so on. That is a hell, if you get in such kind of company, don’t hesitate live it as fast as you can, it is the best option that you have.
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