In convenient table form:
New Job | Old Job |
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No questions asked when I requested active noise-canceling headphones to wear in the noisy server room. | When my phone headset broke, I couldn't order a new one because the company was no longer buying them for employees (never mind that 90% of meetings/customer interaction is via phone). I had to ship them back to the manufacturer to get them replaced, and even then I got an urgent email from my boss's boss's secretary demanding I explain the $5 UPS charge. |
The building is relatively new, and looks nice from the outside and the inside. The inside is kept clean. | The building was a non-descript downtown Indianapolis building. The interior was reminiscent of a Gulag Inprocessing Center in some Eastern Bloc Regime. There was Cheetos dust on the floor from some guy who was in my cubicle in the 80's. |
Employees receive a bonus every quarter when the company achieves its goals for that period. | Employees got a chump change $500 bonus after working 4 days of 12-hour shifts over a weekend while the union went out on a grandstanding strike. |
I have met most of the people I work with/for in person and interact with them FTF on a daily basis. | I never met 95% of the people I worked with. |
There's an exercise facility with free weights, machines, treadmills, elliptical trainers, and so on. If you want, you can have a trainer assigned to you who will help you meet your fitness goals. | No exercise room, but there is a locker/shower facility featuring posters of runners with 70s hair that runners use. Warm water is available more often than not, but wear flip-flops in the shower, b/c I think I picked up Plantar warts there. |
Use of the exercise facilities is approved of and encouraged from the founder of the company on down. | Taking smoke breaks with the boss is the fast track up the corporate ladder. |
There are more, but that's plenty for now.
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