Shouldn't blog at work ...

The thing about working for this huge corporation, besides the weird company culture, snobbishness, and general office politics, is the redundancy. I don't know how it measures up to other similar corporations (or even departments within the company), but I take it that redundancy is a part of life in a big, hierarchical office where relationships are based on utility and representing yourself is the key to promotion.

What I mean is, the more you can show for the work you are doing, the more credit you (or the people who gave you an assignment) can have for doing it. Like doing marketing for yourself (or them).

Collaboration (sharing new ideas, thinking of how processes can be improved) doesn't really exist for most of us, either, because coworkers are afraid others will demonstrate their ability and take their jobs, and superiors are too inefficient to organize.