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I appreciate the explanation and I get it. My point still remains that from a practical standpoint you are statistically unlikely to be able to cause significan

by borplk 9y ago

I appreciate the explanation and I get it. My point still remains that from a practical standpoint you are statistically unlikely to be able to cause significant change as a low-level employee no matter how you go about it. A lot of these companies are intentionally and systematically dysfunctional. You can have all the charisma in the world, they are not interested in changing. And when your official role and purpose is not to shake things up, you wont be allowed to shake things up. Again, notice I said statistically, not absolutely.

cookiecaper 9y ago
That's the defeatist perspective people are arguing against. It's like saying "there is a bug in this compiler; you won't be able to compile that." True, you won't be able to pursue exactly the same route, but you don't just accept that there's a bug. You find a workaround and get the result you need. People can and should do the same thing in the office. The entire point of politics is to navigate the hierarchies that impede access to what you want.