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    Corporate Confidential: 50 Secrets Your Company Doesn't Want You to Know - and What to Do About Them
    Corporate Confidential: 50 Secrets Your Company Doesn't Want You to Know - and What to Do About Them
    Corporate Confidential: 50 Secrets Your Company Doesn't Want You to Know - and What to Do About Them
    Audiobook6 hours

    Corporate Confidential: 50 Secrets Your Company Doesn't Want You to Know - and What to Do About Them

    Written by Cynthia Shapiro

    Narrated by Vanessa Daniels

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    About this audiobook

    Cynthia Shapiro is a former Human Resources executive who's pulling back the curtain on the way that companies really work. In Corporate Confidential, she unmasks startling truths and what you can do about them, including:

    - There's no right to free speech in the workplace.

    - Age discrimination exists.

    - Why being too smart is not too smart.

    - Human Resources is not there to help you, but to protect the company from you.

    - And forty-five more!

    Cynthia Shapiro pulls no punches, giving readers an inside look at a secret world of hidden agendas they would never normally see: a world of insider information and insights that can save a career!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateOct 30, 2018
    ISBN9781977335951
    Corporate Confidential: 50 Secrets Your Company Doesn't Want You to Know - and What to Do About Them
    Author

    Cynthia Shapiro

    Cynthia Shapiro, a former Human Resources V.P., left her position because she grew disillusioned with how most corporations are forced to do business today. She is now a well-known employee advocate and workplace consultant for Fortune 100 and 500 firms, regularly lecturing and writing on the most critical topics affecting employees today. She is the author of What Does Somebody Have to Do to Get A Job Around Here? and Corporate Confidential, and has been featured on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, ABC, PBS, in The Wall Street Journal, Fortune,  Glamour, Self, Details, Essence, Real Simple, and major newspapers across the U.S. She lives in Southern California.

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    • 3/5
      So the game DOES have rules. I just thought they were evil for the sport of it. What if I don't want to play the game?" What if I want to change the rules?

      This is a great manual for finally understanding how corporate culture works. And it does have prescriptions for what ails you. The problem is that finding out that all your paranoia is justified really turns your stomach against wanting to play this game anymore. A lot of this stuff won't work for me because I've already been branded but what if it did? Great! Now, I'm part of the machine that perpetuates this evil.

      The comfort of knowing my fears were justified didn't last long before despair set in.

      Shapiro does give advice for fixing your mistakes and reclaiming your place as a trusted employee. But it's a lot of work. Your paycheck may or may not justify humiliating and overworking yourself on a daily basis until your slighted boss trusts you again. But then if you do get promoted, she gives you the opposite advice that she just gave you when you were an employee. Now you have to earn your employees respect and loyalty, give credit where credit is due, and make sure your employees are motivated - things that you had no right to expect in the employee advice section.

      There's just got to be a better way.