Are you sure you want my opinion?
- Published June 11, 2008
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About 400 of our employees were randomly selected to complete a survey about our jobs for Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For. I was one of those “lucky” few.
I hate surveys like this. It just seems pointless. I mean, who’s really going to give their company all A’s? Nobody loves their job that much. Right? OK, maybe some people do, I guess. But then you have the permanently disgruntled employees who constantly think the world is out to get them, and they see a survey like this as a way to stick it to management. Yeah, go on, fight the power!
I don’t hate my job, I really don’t. But I’m not in love with it either. Would I say this is one of the best companies to work for? Honestly, I would say it’s about average. Most of the stuff that I tend to complain about is stuff that exists anywhere you go in the corporate world.
Coincidentally, I took a day off yesterday, and we headed to Six Flags. While standing in line for the Roaring Rapids, the guy in front of us was wearing a shirt for a, well, post-mortem cleaning company. “Accidental death, murder, suicide, call 817…” Advertising a company like that on the same ride where someone drowned in 1999? Now there’s a guy who likes his job!