" and its corollary, "if you can't escape working for an asshole, you need to learn how to be indifferent, now not to care too much."My friend's question: "What if your whole company acts like an asshole?"
He elaborated. "I went to a retirement party for a friend of mine who worked for the phone company. They've been downsizing forever. There are guys who have been there 25-30 years, and they're trapped. They hate it there, but they have nowhere else to go. So they go through the motions. It's filled with people like that."
Me: "Economists keep telling us that economies of scale mean big companies have advantages."
Him: "Scale economies must mean a lot if those companies still make money, while they're full of people who don't care anymore."
Disclosure: I've worked for very large companies and very small companies in my career. As you can probably guess, I liked working at the smaller companies better.
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indifference, equanimity, narrative, organizational behavior
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