[lbo-talk] factchecking the small business mystique

[shag carpet bomb]

i wouldn't work for a smaller firm again if you paid me. har har.  i'll 
take the relative "security" of a large firm any day of the week. what i 
mean by that is, even in a right to work state, a large firm sees their 
investment in you as exactly that. they see losing you as a costly problem. 
small firms don't. it might be costly, but they can very easily get 
everyone else to step up and cover for the loss. So a corp in a right to 
work state? it will act as if it's not in a right to work state, having 
rules in place that no small firm would bother with, they'd just fire you. 
The big corp is worried about lawsuits, so they have to follow HR rules. 
Also, working for a big corp, you can be a total and complete slacker. I 
have seen people spend most of their day dozing, playing fantasy football, 
and one enterprising guy builds web sites for his clients and doesn't even 
hide it. This recent bout went on for two entire months, with 7 of my 
colleagues doing zippo, but making a big scene has if they were swamped 
busy. It was actually kind of hilarious to watch.

You can't get away with that in a small firm.

If Jordy's reading. I used to be slack jawed amazed that you thought people 
were so lazy on the job. I was wrong! I was wrong. My perspective was 
completely warped by only ever working for small companies.

You were right! You were right! People do spend most of their day doing as 
little as possible. Which is good news for the revo, I guess.

At 01:11 AM 1/26/2010, Joanna wrote:
>I'm not disagreeing with your argument, but I wonder if it also applies to 
>software firms. My experience with large computer firms is that innovation 
>gets lost or nowhere in the many layers of management, which is why there 
>are so many startups and why, after a certain point, large computer corps 
>"grow" by buying said small, successful companies.
>
>There is actually not that much differential in pay and a lot of engineers 
>greatly prefer the smaller firms.
>
>Just saying.
>
>Joanna
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