Comments on: Corporate Blogging, Problems With http://www.monkeyatlarge.com/archives/2005/11/04/corporate-blogging-problems-with/ Random musings on life, technology and other miscellany. Tue, 17 Jan 2012 13:08:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Pete Lyons http://www.monkeyatlarge.com/archives/2005/11/04/corporate-blogging-problems-with/comment-page-1/#comment-26 Pete Lyons Fri, 02 Dec 2005 15:46:00 +0000 http://www.monkeyatlarge.com/?p=31#comment-26 This is classic. You point out the obvious and you get scolded while all the STSMs and DEs that fucked up Workplace and ruined a promissing new product get a pat on the back, stock options and get a free ticket to a new project Accountability and honesty are alien concepts inside IBM. You're lucky to be out of the place. This is classic. You point out the obvious and you get scolded while all the STSMs and DEs that fucked up Workplace and ruined a promissing new product get a pat on the back, stock options and get a free ticket to a new project Accountability and honesty are alien concepts inside IBM. You’re lucky to be out of the place.

]]> By: some worker at some company http://www.monkeyatlarge.com/archives/2005/11/04/corporate-blogging-problems-with/comment-page-1/#comment-17 some worker at some company Wed, 09 Nov 2005 01:30:45 +0000 http://www.monkeyatlarge.com/?p=31#comment-17 Considering that most of the people in this world choose to hide faults rather than to fix them, I would have to say that option B is more likely to happen. People hate having the obvious pointed out to them. If they knew something was a problem, they would rather it slowly get dissolved into the background than to have the problem aired out in the open by people who make way less money than them. It's lame, but that's how I see things work in the corporate world. I've been scolded for what I would say is being realistic (but I guess in a James-esque no holds barred kind of way), and it's funny to know that the most recent incident wasn't even because my direct management felt strongly about it, it was like "so-and-so was upset about your post", and I got the whole, "these are the people who are going to help you in your career in the future" kind of argument, which to me is meaningless if a person gets all crybaby about it and has to escalate up my management chain instead of being normal and talking to me about it directly. Considering that most of the people in this world choose to hide faults rather than to fix them, I would have to say that option B is more likely to happen. People hate having the obvious pointed out to them. If they knew something was a problem, they would rather it slowly get dissolved into the background than to have the problem aired out in the open by people who make way less money than them. It’s lame, but that’s how I see things work in the corporate world.

I’ve been scolded for what I would say is being realistic (but I guess in a James-esque no holds barred kind of way), and it’s funny to know that the most recent incident wasn’t even because my direct management felt strongly about it, it was like “so-and-so was upset about your post”, and I got the whole, “these are the people who are going to help you in your career in the future” kind of argument, which to me is meaningless if a person gets all crybaby about it and has to escalate up my management chain instead of being normal and talking to me about it directly.

]]> By: martymoo http://www.monkeyatlarge.com/archives/2005/11/04/corporate-blogging-problems-with/comment-page-1/#comment-16 martymoo Fri, 04 Nov 2005 22:32:44 +0000 http://www.monkeyatlarge.com/?p=31#comment-16 Seen this? It's on IBM's intranet frontpage, interestingly enough. http://news.ft.com/cms/s/5bf3007c-4c98-11da-89df-0000779e2340.html Hopefully "a" will happen, although I think that small-minded micro-managers will always try to control what their direct-reports say (heck, this is true even with some wide-audience e-mail's I've sent in the past). Seen this? It’s on IBM’s intranet frontpage, interestingly enough.

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/5bf3007c-4c98-11da-89df-0000779e2340.html

Hopefully “a” will happen, although I think that small-minded micro-managers will always try to control what their direct-reports say (heck, this is true even with some wide-audience e-mail’s I’ve sent in the past).

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