| The lesson here is that things don't run smoothly because the purpose of the sausage factory is making sausage. What you are getting is the opportunity to learn how to deal with complexity and impossible problems. The ability to deal with complexity and manage impossible problems is the difference what large corporations value. All those emails and messages are people problems. People problems are the core of the problems Fortune 500 companies have. And people problems are complex and impossible. Just do what you can. You're not going to be fired. Because your manager would have to find someone to do what you used to do, plus what you are doing now...your manager has people problems, understand?. Maybe you quit. Nothing wrong with that. It's useful to realize that quitting would be a rejection of the opportunity to gain experience valuable in Fortune 500 culture. And a rejection of it's central tenant of behaving as if you are in for the long haul. That's ok too. Just understand what you are doing. The reward for work is more work. Good luck. |