I'm working as a data analyst/scientist for two years and I'm already tired. In theory everything is amazing, the math, the algorithms, until u get a job. Useless and endless meetings, useless requests, arbitrary and weird decisions to make the boss and customers happy. We end working 40+ hours/week but the job could be easily done in 30 or less, that is another thing that kills me inside. We all could be living our lives in those hours that we pretend we're doing something. I know it sounds like I'm depressed and all that but I love life, my problem is with the state of things in the corporate environment, the faking and pretending that all is perfect in the way it is, and in the job but in the end everyone is unhappy and feeling like shit and waiting for friday. I just dont know what to do because it sounds to me that every company is the same. Does anyone else feels like that? What do you do to overcome this feeling?
Ask HN: Anyone else is tired of all the corporate bs?
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Re: Ask HN: Anyone else is tired of all the corporate bs?
#2Learn how to work to live, instead of live to work. Automate as much as possible and use the free time in your own projects.
Re: Ask HN: Anyone else is tired of all the corporate bs?
#3I agree to some extent with what you are saying but I challenge you to think the opposite way: the way your company works is the most effective way they can work.
Without all of them being YOU and acting like YOU think they should act, how else can they get anything done?
Have you considered that everyone else there thinks the same, except about YOU?
All these meetings and unnecessary occurrences are in fact necessary to get the bare minimum in agreement between all these different people who think differently and are trying to get different things done.
How else would it be done?
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Re: Ask HN: Anyone else is tired of all the corporate bs?
#5I agree to some extent with what you are saying but I challenge you to think the opposite way: the way your company works is the most effective way they can work. Without all of them being YOU and acting like YOU think they should act, how else can they get anything done? Have you considered that everyone else there thinks the same, except about YOU? All these meetings and unnecessary occurrences are in fact necessar…
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Re: Ask HN: Anyone else is tired of all the corporate bs?
#6You need to change teams to a project that interests you or find another job working on something that actually excites you imo
Re: Ask HN: Anyone else is tired of all the corporate bs?
#7It keeps upper management busy and out of your hair micromanaging you.
Re: Ask HN: Anyone else is tired of all the corporate bs?
#8Learn how to work to live, instead of live to work. Automate as much as possible and use the free time in your own projects.
You can't automate meetings. Nor can you make PHBs become logical nor reasonable. Dilbert comic strip is actually a documentary.
Re: Ask HN: Anyone else is tired of all the corporate bs?
#9I agree to some extent with what you are saying but I challenge you to think the opposite way: the way your company works is the most effective way they can work. Without all of them being YOU and acting like YOU think they should act, how else can they get anything done? Have you considered that everyone else there thinks the same, except about YOU? All these meetings and unnecessary occurrences are in fact necessar…
How else would it be done, is the question.
Re: Ask HN: Anyone else is tired of all the corporate bs?
#10Smaller companies have less of this corporate bs. In my last company I could request them to take my part first in meetings so I can leave first.
I’ve been quite vocal to show my happiness and ask them to explain if that meeting ads value anywhere.