Is it "working WITH" or "working FOR"?

As a fellow who has been spending my last two and a half years in Bangalore; the Silicon Valley of India, it has been an experience which gave me the same shock which the author of "The World is Flat" Thomas Friedman  would have experienced. Also, as a young fellow who has plenty of friends who are working in the Multinational Companies (MN-Cs) and frequently saying "wish you a safe journey" to them, I found it very interesting recalling the moment I got introduced to them. The simple and mere variations I found in
the words they used to describe their kind of work they did and the way they explained what they actually do, gave me a bigger surprise. 

As a teenager I have heard some of my relations and family friends saying, 'I am working "IN" the bank' or may be 'I am working "IN" the Ministry of Education, etc. But the latest style of expressions are sounding different. Some of them say 'I am working WITH Yahoo' and some say 'I am working FOR Microsoft". Hope you are feeling the different tastes in your buds. Does that mean that the company has signed a contract with a mutual understanding to use the fellow for few years and throw him/her or has it hired all his/her abilities to be put in together in this job of attractive dollars to make the employees strive and earn.  

Decades ago, a person working at a particular office or an organization, felt in all possible ways, that he/she belongs to that organization and the organization belongs to them too. The fundamentals of Integrity and Honesty were not needed to be monitored. The mind of serving came out of their own selves voluntarily. The organizations and institutions were famous and re-known by those who worked in it.

Is it that now the way employees being treated in the modern companies give us a different picture of "employment"? Are they really being employed or hired? Is it a profession for them or is it being used by someone who recognizes your abilities? It is time for us to think.

If you just ask some of these employees, working for many different companies which have all kinds of symbolic names derived all the way from the Greek tragedies to the modern Hollywood blockbusters, you may be surprised of the way they feel about their jobs. Some feel that they are paid well for their abilities and this may be the best offer provided to them. Some feel that they already know that they are being squeezed to their maximum which leaves them blank at the end of the day. Very few have the realization that their job is a temporary one as long as they are not innovative in whatever they do.

For the company "an egg is a hen's way of making another hen", but for the employees "a hen is an egg's way of making another egg". How long can this approach be intertwined to produce a population of people who live their daily life not only for the income but also for their outgoing?

This really reminds me few words from Dalai Lama's "Paradox of our time";

"We have learned to make a LIVING; but not a LIFE.."