<story><title>How I survived being a $220k/year intern</title><url>https://matt.sh/commit-this</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>HarryHirsch</author><text>Rachel had something about fixing corporate culture recently (hint: you can&amp;#x27;t), and sometimes really you can&amp;#x27;t leave. Some are shackled to their jobs through their visa, others because of healthcare needs (their health insurance has favourable terms, and they need to care for a family member), and others because of the nature of the industry (university faculty comes to mind, especially post-2008).&lt;p&gt;The fact that you are paid does nothing about the &lt;i&gt;ennui&lt;/i&gt;. You clearly never held a no-show job before.</text></item><item><author>tracerbulletx</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t understand people who write things like this. If you&amp;#x27;re unhappy leave, if you think the corporate culture is wrong, either participate in fixing it, or get out.  I honestly can&amp;#x27;t stand people who self righteously sound the alarm about how they can see all of the things wrong with everybody else. It sounds especially childish when you are making so much money.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aprdm</author><text>The concept of fixing corporate culture seems like a weird one, if you remove corporate and go for the generic term, can you &amp;quot;fix culture&amp;quot;?&lt;p&gt;I think what you can do is influence the culture of a company and reap the rewards, having done the devops transformation in two difference companies that were deemed unfixable (both more than 4 offices and 3k people) I feel it is very doable! It just takes time and it is not an algorithm you can learn and apply blindly.</text></comment>
<story><title>How I survived being a $220k/year intern</title><url>https://matt.sh/commit-this</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>HarryHirsch</author><text>Rachel had something about fixing corporate culture recently (hint: you can&amp;#x27;t), and sometimes really you can&amp;#x27;t leave. Some are shackled to their jobs through their visa, others because of healthcare needs (their health insurance has favourable terms, and they need to care for a family member), and others because of the nature of the industry (university faculty comes to mind, especially post-2008).&lt;p&gt;The fact that you are paid does nothing about the &lt;i&gt;ennui&lt;/i&gt;. You clearly never held a no-show job before.</text></item><item><author>tracerbulletx</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t understand people who write things like this. If you&amp;#x27;re unhappy leave, if you think the corporate culture is wrong, either participate in fixing it, or get out.  I honestly can&amp;#x27;t stand people who self righteously sound the alarm about how they can see all of the things wrong with everybody else. It sounds especially childish when you are making so much money.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>closeparen</author><text>If you have the political capital to spend, you can, for example:&lt;p&gt;- Model the behaviors you want to see.&lt;p&gt;- Thanks and recognize others when they do the behaviors you want to see.&lt;p&gt;- Use your Comment and Reject buttons when formal processes ask you to sign off on behaviors you don&amp;#x27;t want to see.&lt;p&gt;- Propose initiatives to influential people you trust and identify as likely allies.&lt;p&gt;Of course if you&amp;#x27;re wrong about having the political capital, and especially if your own manager is not on board, swimming upstream can be dangerous.</text></comment>