I work for a big company. Those of you who work for a big company too know that you don't really need to say the company name or field of activity; all the jobs are pretty much the same. Go to the office, read and write documents, answer e-mail, and in the mean time use the company computer for internet browsing and personal email. Sometimes you have to attend company meetings, and that's something I particularly hate because there is no better way to waste time and you can't entertaing yourself during the meeting, so they are terribly boring. The main objective is to leave the meeting without more work to do.
Well, we always tend to have a better concept of ourselves than the others, and sometimes we think what would happen if we leave the company. I don't think about it anymore because, for my experience, big companies always go on. In fact, I'm in "paternity leave" for one year and my boss didn't even have searched for a replacement. My tasks will be shared by the rest of my coworkers. That's make sense because the company won't accept a new hiring, and it doesn't make sense to train somebody because, when he is about to learn the job, I will be coming back.
But the fact is that I've been two months away and nothing terrible had happened, and I'm afraid nothing will happen for the next 10 months. I hope they don't decide I'm redundant after that.... HAHAHAHAHA
So, if you work for a big company and the foundations shake everytime you are sick: you are in #$%*, you will never get promotion, your company lets you get vacation only when there is less work and you can't get a leave of absence. On the contrary, if you work for a big company and nobody notices when you have been a week away, it's good for you, you get vacation when you want, you don't work hard and you can get leave of absence, but you are the first one to go when the going gets though. I guess the trick is to find a balance between both terms.
Raul
