Thread: Office Culture in Russia compared with other countries?

Russians: There are two groups in the office who do some work (workers) and who do nothing (loafers). Both have the same salaries. The workers hate the loafers because they think that the loafers got the money they earned. Since the salary is equal workers try to get some other benefits such as coming to work later or going to a swimming pool after a lunch. If the boss lets the workers to get some time benefits then the loafers hates the workers and think that the workers are lickspittles. If the boss doesn't let the time benefits for the workers the workers either find a new job or they just stop doing any work and became the loafers also.

Every working person in the office thinks that he is the only one who do the useful work and he is the only one who makes the entire company to survive.
If a vice boss asks a somebody to do something new the somebody will respond that the super boss did not tell him that this is a part of his duties.
If a somebody asks a vice boss to rise his salary the vice boss respond that the somebody should go talk to the super boss himself.

I've been in IT in the USA since 1984. Most company's culture are different, maybe some have the stereotype as below but I've never seen it. It's pretty rare for a person that works for a company to not use all there vacation time. For people working for themselves is a different story. There are people who work long hours, for me, I don't get it. There's one life, this is it. There are people that work hard and some not so much. There are butt kissers but most not. There are overweight people, my experience is a lot in the middle of the country. As for the people with chalk white teeth and perfectly manicured fingers, maybe they're on TV?

FYI - it's pretty common now that companies don't have separate sick, personal and vacation time. They're lumped together, called PTO (Paid Time Off) and used as needed.

Scott




Americans: Always in the office, working long hours and almost never on holiday. Better at talking about things than actually doing them. Enthusiastic and friendly but don't seem to work very hard while in the office. Easy to fire people but that doesn't seem to worry anyone. Always joking about people getting the sack. Casual clothing. Lots of people very overweight, lots of people with chalk white teeth and perfectly manicured fingers.