umatrix
Mechanical
- Jul 18, 2013
- 62
I’m in the early stage of my career with about 3 years experience. (5 years if I count the internship while finishing my graduate studies.)
Every company I’ve worked for( 3 in total) has been very dysfunctional. Here are the typical stages/ pattern each company has followed:
1. Current CEO, upper management is in process of running company into ground with bad management and misuse of resources.
2. Company in process of bankruptcy, outing failed CEO and upper management.
3. Post bankruptcy, fresh CEO and upper management. Repeat process.
It’s always the same spiel starting a new job. HR makes a bunch of hollow noise. “We’re happy to have so and so join our team.” “ Umatrix will make a perfect fit.”
Then reality sets in, bitter boss, disjointed teammates. H1b insider information club, of which I’m not allowed to join. My questions are met with polite obfuscated responses. Why would they help me anyway, I guess.
It’s been weeks without any new assignments, even after asking. If I do get an assignment it is typically one that boss wants to offload and find a potential scapegoat. So during down time I’ve been learning everything I can. I’ve signed up for seminars, practicing the software. Reading manuals etc.
I feel that I have a lot to offer a company, perhaps I have not found the right one.
The answer I would give to myself is that I’m the only one responsible for my career, so it’s time to find a new position, but what if they are all like this? Perhaps it is as the Experienced engineer told me one time, he said “ around year 5 you will hear a pop, don’t worry that is just the sound of your head popping out of your a**”. Could it be the perfect place does not exist and that I’ve been too naïve?
I am curious to see how others experiences compare. Also how you deal with the lack of job security, resource misuse and, ineffective management etc
Every company I’ve worked for( 3 in total) has been very dysfunctional. Here are the typical stages/ pattern each company has followed:
1. Current CEO, upper management is in process of running company into ground with bad management and misuse of resources.
2. Company in process of bankruptcy, outing failed CEO and upper management.
3. Post bankruptcy, fresh CEO and upper management. Repeat process.
It’s always the same spiel starting a new job. HR makes a bunch of hollow noise. “We’re happy to have so and so join our team.” “ Umatrix will make a perfect fit.”
Then reality sets in, bitter boss, disjointed teammates. H1b insider information club, of which I’m not allowed to join. My questions are met with polite obfuscated responses. Why would they help me anyway, I guess.
It’s been weeks without any new assignments, even after asking. If I do get an assignment it is typically one that boss wants to offload and find a potential scapegoat. So during down time I’ve been learning everything I can. I’ve signed up for seminars, practicing the software. Reading manuals etc.
I feel that I have a lot to offer a company, perhaps I have not found the right one.
The answer I would give to myself is that I’m the only one responsible for my career, so it’s time to find a new position, but what if they are all like this? Perhaps it is as the Experienced engineer told me one time, he said “ around year 5 you will hear a pop, don’t worry that is just the sound of your head popping out of your a**”. Could it be the perfect place does not exist and that I’ve been too naïve?
I am curious to see how others experiences compare. Also how you deal with the lack of job security, resource misuse and, ineffective management etc