Big Company Life
Woah, that was close. It completely slipped my mind. My memory must be getting hazy in my old age.
I woke up early with plans to knock out a few episodes of Gossip Girl before going to work. As I sat there I felt a shock go through my body. I like to call it memory shock. You know, when a surge run through your body and then boom all of a sudden you remember something that you had forgotten.
It is a good thing I remembered when I did. An hour or two later and I would have found myself in a spot of bother. Today is my day. Right after a national holiday as well… The worst thing about it is that I was supposed to do it last week but it got pushed forward one week.
I guess it is just one of the perils of working for a small company.
There are 6 of us in our room. We do a rotation and once a week someone gets to come to work 1 hour early to let the cleaner lady in…
It made me reminisce of my stretch at NEC a few years back and made me start wondering if big company life is better than small..
In a small company you have to become part of an interchangeable unit. If somebody can’t come in you need to be ready to pick up their slack for them. You normally need to go the extra mile, do tasks you don’t really want to do (picking up the phone..), and once in a while go above the line of duty. At a bigger company you only need to worry about covering your own arse and getting your own work done. Screw the company and everybody else ;P
I think the thing I liked best about a big company is your lack of presence. In a small company if you spend too long in the toilet eyebrows start getting raised about where you have disappeared to. You can’t really keep leaving your desk or just start wandering around. Anything and everything you do is more or less under a microscope.
But when I was at NEC I was on some Spiderman shit. Once the folks got rid of the, “OMG there is a black man in the building” syndrome and stopped starring at me all day I was free to run loose through the building. Heck, there were days were you might not see me for like 2 hours straight. But what could they really do? I might have been in a meeting, on another floor or another part of the building carrying out a task.
Another good thing about big companies is that they have extensive resources. I remember the floor I was on had two big toilets with lots of cubicles. The first time I entered one of the cubicles a light bulb appeared above my head.
Since the buildings are so big the cleaners would just leave 5-6 rolls in each cubicle instead of leaving one and coming back every hour. Do you understand why the light bulb went off? Well let’s just say that, “Toilet Roll” did not appear on my shopping receipt for the next 6 months.
So what type of companies are you guys working in? Which do you prefer big or small? Do you have any interesting perceptions of either?
What is your poision? Are you a paper clip theif, a pen pocketer, or like me a toilet roll bandit. Or are you big time and steal desks, chairs, printers and anything that is not nailed down.
Oh and here is a curve ball that I just thought off. An ethical question.
I go to work and steal 10 1-2 rolls of toilet roll.
Some kid runs into a store and steals a pack of toilet roll of the shelf.
Is there any difference? Is one more ok than the other?
Would be interested on thoughts on that.
Lastly, this link made me laugh a bit:
http://www.itsatarp.com/
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May 1st, 2009 at 2:01 pm
LOL, I’m exactly like you - not the toilet rolls though but I save $$$ on stationeries to use at home. I have a nifty filing system at home, with stuff I took back. But shhhh… don’t tell anyone.
Can’t go missing that long though unless for legitimate errans because people seems to like looking for me for stuff.
May 1st, 2009 at 2:22 pm
@Lina
LOL so stationery is your poison huh
It’s all good. I am in the IT industry so there is like little to know stationary in the places I work in. I dont need stationary anyway lol
That sucks you cant go missing for too long hehe. One of the hazards of being needed hehe.
May 1st, 2009 at 5:37 pm
Well!
Toilet paper of all things!
I mean working at a company with computers everywhere, you could’ve made a few machines disappear… I personally have a umm… well, lets say I like routers a lot
May 1st, 2009 at 5:38 pm
Toilettu rollu thefttu! So you’re the one they looked for in the Japanese version of the X-Files. Mystery solved
May 1st, 2009 at 5:40 pm
@Michael Flux
lolol. This is Japan man. If anything goes missing and I am in the room I am going straight to jail
@Nino
Toilettu rollu thefttu!
LOL. I wonder if what I type here can be used in a court of law hehe..
May 1st, 2009 at 5:55 pm
@Prometheus
You can always do what Michael Jackson did and no-one will notice you -_^
But its funny, there are so little foreigners in Nagoya, in all my time there I saw maybe 5-6 other foreigners, all of whom were white as snow. All the tourists just go straight to Tokyo.
May 1st, 2009 at 6:03 pm
@Michael Flux
Yeah, I went to Nagoya once in 2005 to go to the world expo thing they had on. I think I saw a few foreigners because of the event. But even still it was a very low amount compared to Tokyo.
Oh yeah, If I had enough money to do a Wacko Jacko I wouldn’t need to rob and steal in the first place hehe.
May 1st, 2009 at 6:24 pm
@Prometheus
Oh, then how about we rob him? I hear he has plenty of money now with his tour and such…
I’ll pretend to be the 10 year old, and while I’m doing that, you can run around the ranch with a big bag. ^_^
May 2nd, 2009 at 12:08 am
I was laughing when I read this. Because I have done the same thing at my “big company”. I have taken long walks because for all they know, I am at some meeting. And, yes, I too have taken rolls of toilet paper home as well.
May 2nd, 2009 at 12:26 am
I once wondered if there’s someone who brings these rolls back home, when I found the spared rolls on the toilet shelf. There it is!
Anyway it’s the privilege for people who work for a company whether it’s a big name or not. Like me who work from home as a free-lance interior planner & occasional writer has to take care of everything by myself from a copy paper to the office rent. But the goodness for that is I can file these expenses for deduction from total earnings.
In that way, by including other expenses, such as buying a table for my family, as if they were for business purposes, I am a bandit, too. :p
p.s I don’t do that job any more. Now I’m a home-based stock trader, blogger, and a writer only when asked.
May 2nd, 2009 at 6:19 am
Hey there! Time for a game today! Tag, you’re it. Drop by and see what you need to do.
Anna
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May 2nd, 2009 at 7:07 am
Good stuff. I enjoyed this posting. It made me think - does the toilet roll or the paper clip (or in my case, extra coffee stuff) make up for the piece of soul that got sucked out of me every day I went to work.
I will be back again. This is a good place to hang!
ExpatFromHell
May 2nd, 2009 at 7:07 am
@Tornadoes28
Heheh cool. Nice to see that there are others out me with their thinking cap on. Like when you leave that much toilet roll there what do expect to happen…
@kirin
If I were you I would have bought a Wii and Xbox 360 and filed them for deductions hehe.
Hahaha lol. Kirin you are bad
I guess we are all bandits
@Anna
Thanks for tagging me. I will do it in a few hours once I get some sleep. I just got in from a night out on the town. Need my beauty sleep
May 2nd, 2009 at 7:09 am
@Kent
Not a problem at all. Bit by bit all of your soul gets sucked out and soon you don’t feel a thing ^_^
May 2nd, 2009 at 7:10 am
@Kent
Thanks for dropping by. I will check your blog out too.
Woah we both posted a comment at exactly the same time hehe. I dont think it will completely make up for it. But as they say, every little bit counts
May 2nd, 2009 at 7:12 am
@Michael Flux
Lol ok this is freaky now. This time me and Michael posted a comment at the same time…
Mr Flux dont say crazy things that will scare people
May 2nd, 2009 at 7:43 am
@Prometheus
There is only one explanation! We are all stalking you!
May 2nd, 2009 at 7:54 am
Ok, this occupied my mind:
1 Does mr. Prometheus need extra toilet rolls?
2 Are toilet rolls so expensive that people are forced to steal them?
3 Don’t Japanese toilets have an automatic butt-cleaning-and-blow-drying function which makes toilet rolls redundant?
4 Is mr. Prometheus the notorius ‘Tokyo no Toilettu rollu thefttu’, a notorious vigilante, who steals toilet rolls from the rich and gives them to the poor?
I expect your full replies on all 4 questions by tomorrow. Thank you, sir.
May 2nd, 2009 at 10:17 pm
@Michael Flux
The walls have ears …
@Nino
1) I need the toilet roll because I had none..
2) No it is cheap. But the toilet rolls were calling me..
I had no choice in the matter..
3) They do… But would u press a button and let toilet water (from a public toilet) wizz up ur arse…
4) I steal from the rich and give to me…
May 3rd, 2009 at 1:31 am
fortunately i work for the government - thats as big as big “company” gets
May 3rd, 2009 at 4:24 am
Hahaha… very good responses, my friend. I applaud you.
May 6th, 2009 at 2:51 pm
Definitely prefer working for a big company, for just the reasons you’ve posted, Prometheus. Toilet roll theft never occurred to me, probably because, for all the other perks they provide us employees, they still skimp and use cheap-ass toilet paper…
May 7th, 2009 at 10:48 am
@Jamaipanese
the walls have ears and eyes!!!
yeah big as they come huh. and lol I would never steal from a goverment building
@Nino
*bows*
@john turningpin
Haha the cheap shit can be lethal. Paper cuts and such lol. Luckly they place I was at had the good stuff. Thanks for passing by
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