West Coast Work Mentality

[unccpathfinder]

From my daily involvements in projects with our corporate office and vendors in portland/seattle and from other folks inputs of their dealings with other companies out there...

 

for the majority is everyone slow with their dealings on projects and what not...i have noticed multiple times where the project is urgent and it would take me like 5 mins to do but it takes them "20 hrs"...since i'm looking to move/work out there i was just curious if this is mainstream?

[mws]

Based on my experiences, it is not so much a west coast/east coast thing as a corporate office/field office thing. ALL corporate offices I've dealt with have serious pockets of "non aggressive" workers. Some of the worst I've dealt with were midwest, but many on the east coast and some on the west coast as well. From my 20 year perspective, I've actually seen less on the west coast, but I am involved in high end electronics.

 

I believe the most significant factor is how "mature" the company is. Companies that have been around a long time tend to collect some dead wood employees who behave as if entitled. Recently formed companies (regardless of age of employees) tend to be much more aggressive.

[unccpathfinder]

thats a good POV on everything...since i walked in the door a year ago at work and the same for my peers its WFO all the time just when u think u have a second to relax 10 tons of @!*% fall out of the sky right on ure plate to take care of and its take care of it now or see ya...and i have always worked hard growing up (although its mostly been manual labor till now)...i hate having unfinished business and try to get everything complete accurately asap

[Precise1]

Yep, I'm backing mws... The slowest company I ever worked for was 3M; huge and midwest. I tend to look for smaller companies, 50-500 emploies, to work for. Big enough to be stable and have benefits and room to advance, but small enough to be responsive and appreciate key employees. I'd argue that most people in Cali in the smaller companies work harder/longer/multitask more than other places. I could be totally wrong, but I base that on all the out of state sloths I have worked with. *shrug*

I know that I'm usually waiting on others and I run my own department in a company of 60ish.

 

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