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why do people at big companies take bigger roles at smaller ones
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Date: August 6th, 2026 2:15 PM Author: vibrant bright national like being the highest fag at a small company is worse than being merely an upper fag at a big one (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890105&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50049582) |
Date: August 6th, 2026 2:17 PM Author: Up-to-no-good legend pistol You should probably ask AI about this not flame (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890105&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50049588) |
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Date: August 6th, 2026 2:19 PM Author: vibrant bright national That is often the real tradeoff. At a large, selective company, the surrounding talent pool can be much stronger, the systems are better developed, and even people below you may have deeper expertise than senior people at a smaller firm. Moving down-market can therefore mean gaining authority while losing peer quality, institutional competence, and the chance to learn from unusually capable colleagues.
For some people, that is still worth it because they value control more than intellectual environment. They would rather make the decisions with a weaker team than remain one strong person among many, especially if they believe they can upgrade the talent around them. The danger is that they underestimate how much of their own effectiveness was produced by the large company’s infrastructure, brand, data, recruiting power, and competent support functions.
So the move is best when the smaller company is unusually strong for its size, well-funded, growing, or already attracting high-quality people. It is much worse when the company is merely small, under-resourced, and mediocre, because then the “bigger role” can become managing weaker people inside weaker systems with fewer options. In that case, the title is larger but the actual career platform is smaller. |
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Date: August 6th, 2026 2:19 PM Author: Black Shaky Bawdyhouse Wagecucks (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890105&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50049597) |
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Date: August 6th, 2026 2:21 PM Author: Up-to-no-good legend pistol Surprisingly shitty answer tbh people do it because being a big fish in a small pond feels great and life is way easier than it is the other way around (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890105&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50049600) |
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Date: August 6th, 2026 2:21 PM Author: vibrant bright national working with retards is awful (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890105&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50049604) |
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Date: August 6th, 2026 2:23 PM Author: Black Shaky Bawdyhouse Wagecucks what about poasting with them / us? 😋 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890105&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50049611) |
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Date: August 6th, 2026 2:27 PM Author: Up-to-no-good legend pistol Not if you have sovereignty over them (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890105&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50049629) |
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Date: August 6th, 2026 2:28 PM Author: vibrant bright national sovereignly telling them to do something correctly and them doing it wrong for 5 years tp (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890105&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50049637) |
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Date: August 6th, 2026 2:29 PM Author: Up-to-no-good legend pistol You just fire the shitters that's what sovereignty is (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890105&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50049641) |
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Date: August 6th, 2026 2:29 PM Author: vibrant bright national small companies don't Attract Talent. i think you're way off here (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890105&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50049642) |
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Date: August 6th, 2026 2:30 PM Author: Up-to-no-good legend pistol Have you ever been the boss of people and had the authority to hire and fire them at will (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890105&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50049651) |
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Date: August 6th, 2026 2:31 PM Author: vibrant bright national i think you're losing this thread on multiple fronts rn (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890105&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50049652) |
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Date: August 6th, 2026 2:34 PM Author: Up-to-no-good legend pistol (guy who has been so worn down by wagecuckery that he cannot even imagine what it would be like to be able to simply eliminate the people at work who suck, as opposed to them being literally unfireable DEI untouchables in corporate contexts) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890105&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50049665) |
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Date: August 6th, 2026 2:49 PM Author: vibrant bright national you live in a fantasy world were people at shitty small companies with sub-directional state u educations "don't suck" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890105&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50049703) |
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Date: August 6th, 2026 2:56 PM Author: Up-to-no-good legend pistol There are a lot of them who suck, I agree with you, but you can just fire them if they suck too much
That's what's so nice about it |
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Date: August 6th, 2026 2:56 PM Author: vibrant bright national You're just churning through retarded looking sub-directional state u retards. they're all the same retard. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890105&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50049722) |
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Date: August 6th, 2026 3:15 PM Author: Up-to-no-good legend pistol Be careful you're sounding like you might have more in common than not with people who think they are mind computers and not human bodies (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890105&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50049798) |
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Date: August 6th, 2026 3:07 PM Author: Racy Hilarious Sanctuary Coldplay Fan this is so unbelievably obvious I can't believe they're arguing with you
what are we even doing here |
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Date: August 6th, 2026 3:11 PM Author: Up-to-no-good legend pistol Are you agreeing or disagreeing with me I can't tell because the thread reply indents are so all over the place (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890105&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50049783) |
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Date: August 6th, 2026 3:13 PM Author: Talented Tanning Salon He's agreeing with you. Click parent and the post at the top of the page is whatever post is being replied to. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890105&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50049792) |
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Date: August 6th, 2026 3:15 PM Author: Racy Hilarious Sanctuary Coldplay Fan I agree with: "being a big fish in a small pond feels great and life is way easier than it is the other way around" and think it's astonishing that it even needs to be said
w/e guys, enjoy your lanyards with your little ids on them ljl |
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Date: August 6th, 2026 3:16 PM Author: Up-to-no-good legend pistol Yeah cr I was worried for a second thought I might have to second guess myself if you didn't agree with me (not really though I mean come on lol wtf is wrong with these guys) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890105&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50049799) |
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Date: August 6th, 2026 2:24 PM Author: Talented Tanning Salon Everyone moving to smaller companies is just doing it so they can do drugs, harass women, embezzle money and get away with it (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890105&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50049615) |
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Date: August 6th, 2026 2:26 PM Author: vibrant bright national thats my feeling (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890105&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50049621) |
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Date: August 6th, 2026 2:25 PM Author: twinkling haunting library codepig Intellectual environment is my main thing (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890105&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50049620) |
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Date: August 6th, 2026 2:26 PM Author: vibrant bright national (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890105&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50049623) |
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Date: August 6th, 2026 2:26 PM Author: Black Shaky Bawdyhouse Wagecucks (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890105&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50049624) |
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Date: August 6th, 2026 2:19 PM Author: Black Shaky Bawdyhouse Wagecucks (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890105&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50049598) |
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Date: August 6th, 2026 2:22 PM Author: Talented Tanning Salon idk but the smaller the company the shittier experience by default. amazing how libs tried to convince us otherwise. Anything outside the fortune ~300 is always a complete mess Joke. Nothing done even close to correct, everyone miserable, cutting corners etc. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890105&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50049607) |
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Date: August 6th, 2026 2:23 PM Author: Black Shaky Bawdyhouse Wagecucks Autoadmit is a BLUE CHIP company in the Fortune 180 I would submit 🐶 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890105&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50049612) |
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Date: August 6th, 2026 2:26 PM Author: vibrant bright national couldnt agree more here (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890105&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50049626) |
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Date: August 6th, 2026 2:28 PM Author: Up-to-no-good legend pistol It's the opposite
You guys almost certainly have shitty phenotypes and this is why you prefer being able to blend in to the corporate masses
I can spot your type a mile away even over the fucking internet |
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Date: August 6th, 2026 2:29 PM Author: vibrant bright national lol people at small companies are universally uglier (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890105&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50049640) |
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Date: August 6th, 2026 2:30 PM Author: Up-to-no-good legend pistol Not if you control for take home compensation (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890105&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50049645) |
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Date: August 6th, 2026 2:30 PM Author: vibrant bright national im not sure you're using this phrase properly (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890105&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50049650) |
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Date: August 6th, 2026 2:32 PM Author: Up-to-no-good legend pistol The normie guy who nets 300k a year running his small business almost always has a better phenotype than the dweeb netting 300k a year at a corporation (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890105&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50049655) |
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Date: August 6th, 2026 2:51 PM Author: vibrant bright national "running his small business" is not what "highest fag at a small company" means. If I meant "running his small business" I would've said "top fag at a his own company"
Also top fags at their own companies are usually prole nasty looking retards anyway. |
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Date: August 6th, 2026 3:07 PM Author: Racy Hilarious Sanctuary Coldplay Fan (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890105&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50049761) |
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Date: August 6th, 2026 2:35 PM Author: Talented Tanning Salon No. Once a company is Profitable they throw enormous resources into maintaining that profitability and satisfying shareholders so whatever it takes. More money into recruiting and screening for better employees, endless money thrown at problems, money for management consulting teams to analyze everything to death and fix any perceived "problem". Anything outside the top few hundred companies is the opposite, operating like they are constantly on the verge of bankruptcy. Constant waste of what little leverage they have, people lying and cheating and cutting corners and slacking. It's a Joke. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890105&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50049671) |
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Date: August 6th, 2026 2:38 PM Author: Up-to-no-good legend pistol What the fuck are you talking about like 80% of corporate employees are straight up dead weight who do not do anything useful or do like 1-4 useful hours of labor per week and otherwise just dick around or engage in destructive office politics
This thread is an insane asylum |
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Date: August 6th, 2026 2:52 PM Author: vibrant bright national and worst of all, people at small companies typically suffer from unresolved Enmeshment with the Mother wherein every problem becomes everyone else's problem, and there is a palpable Dearth of Project Management. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890105&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50049714) |
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Date: August 6th, 2026 3:16 PM Author: charismatic transparent cruise ship There’s nothing worse than working for some retard Boomer “small business owner” ime. That whole mythology of the small town small business has been thoroughly exposed and ridiculed by now. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890105&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50049800) |
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Date: August 6th, 2026 3:18 PM Author: Talented Tanning Salon (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890105&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50049807) |
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Date: August 6th, 2026 3:27 PM Author: chest-beating erotic antidepressant drug sneaky criminal In most cases, they get pushed out of bigco and take the first job that they can spin as a step up, which involves going to a shittier company that is impressed by their F100 experience and will call them a VP of whatever (with a tiny portfolio and 1 clueless direct report). This is pretty obvious when you see all the here today/gone tomorrow mid-level people inside any megacorp. It always takes a few months for their LinkedIn to update from Director of Some BS at a household name to VP of Fake Garbage at a company you need to Google to identify. Most companies now have a constant churn of this move rather than big announced rounds of layoffs. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890105&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50049823) |
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Date: August 6th, 2026 3:28 PM Author: vibrant bright national Exactly this (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890105&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50049826) |
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Date: August 6th, 2026 3:28 PM Author: Talented Tanning Salon (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890105&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50049827) |
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Date: August 6th, 2026 3:59 PM Author: Carmine Appetizing Cuckold Goal In Life wow (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890105&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310909#50049864) |