Corporate Life - The Good And The Bad

After 15 years spent in the corporate world, I could draw some conclusions. There are good and bad parts, and I will describe them below. I enjoyed it, until it was enough. I do think that being in a part of the world (Eastern Europe) where the government, trying to attract multinationals, will do anything to give them power over the employees. This makes the life of its citizens limited somehow, even if this is a chance to raise above the average national level, in many terms.

The good part working in a multinational company:
1. learning processes, procedures, working with proper tools
2. really specializing in your field, getting some good training and paid courses (my CIMA certification was paid by one of my former employers - and this is a big amount!! thousands of EUR)
3. working with some true professionals, and seeing good examples
4. earning above average salary, after the 5th year of employment.


The bad part:
1. being constrained and controlled by processes, systems and, managers (sometimes micro-managers)
2. must show up every day, for 8 hours (why not working from home, remote??)
3. not so great colleagues. In my area, there are too many companies that cannot form train their people. They all want trained people... but what they find on the market are not properly trained, junior people... and their formation takes years. Imagine, after 10+ years of experience, your colleagues are still junior, and they don't understand sometimes the basic aspects of their jobs.
4. Y-generation, millennials. The youth (30 and below) is not prepared to work seriously. They want much more salary for the same work, and they will boycott their employer... low pay, low commitment! It's a pain to work with such people.
5. Somewhat limited perspective to grow. The main goal of your manager is to keep you in place and increase your efficiency, not increase your position and real experience/variety of skills.
6. Stupid processes and systems. No documentation, no experts to learn from, everything done in the last moment...
7. the senior manager sees Eastern Europeans as a cost, an expandable resource. To generate profit for them. Nothing more. You are a peon in their game.

This video from grindreel summarizes the bullshit culture very well:
https://youtu.be/gMwUNVNZUmc