In a large company even the lowliest manager is pulled constantly in other directions to the detriment of the project, priorities become fluid, interactions with the team and/or it’s product became less and less tangible.  So, in this case, there is no way anyone is noticed unless they whine.

Hence my working in smaller companies several times over the years.  This is a less obvious.  The manager in a small company is usually wearing many hats and is pulled in so many directions on a constant basis that you have the same level of indirect acquantance with how things really work or any individual’s achievements.

When someone is boasting it’s so blatantly obvious and putrid that you can’t help reach for the barf bag.  However, it appears to ‘work’.

Currently at the larger company there are several people (whom I know are at the top of the salary range) who are constantly boasting/bragging/complaining loudly about the most trivial aspects of their work load.  I think this behavior is being rewarded with regularity.  Hence their range and title.

I feel like I am trading my soul for a few pieces of silver.