Thursday, October 18, 2007

Cheers (again)

A job interview yesterday for another familiar company, one that I spent 21 years working for and never should have left. Probably the most promising. How great it was walking through the corridors and seeing all of the familiar faces.

But the one that I really want eludes me.

Labels: cheers, culture, job, work

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Cheers

Job interview today. Looking into something I once walked away from, and I'm not certain that it's not going from the frying pan......but we will see. Perhaps I won't be considered, but at least it was somewhere where I knew most of the folks and they are supportive and friendly. It's good to go where everybody knows your name and there is no Kool Aid to drink.

That was always the inference at the previous company. Because you had to become a part of the culture to a fault. I'm not certain what the culture was though. My boss's culture was to play any side of the fence that made her look good.

I think that when you work for a company you should buy into its culture, but not to the extent that you have to compromise your values or to the extent that the culture is the only way. Without the ability to develop new methods and think outside of the culture there is no improvement.

Probably just the reason that the same problems exist today.

Labels: cheers, culture, job, kool aid, work