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I swear, everybody on HN thinks they are a "high performer". In reality, most of us aren't. Unions mostly only cover the lower hierarchies (like IG Metall does)
by foepys 8y ago
I swear, everybody on HN thinks they are a "high performer". In reality, most of us aren't. Unions mostly only cover the lower hierarchies (like IG Metall does) while managers (even middle management) have to negotiate their salary by themselves.
So, if you are a "high performer", you will easily get a management job and get all the money you are able to negotiate.
- majewsky 8y agoMany high performers in technical positions will stop being high performers when promoted to a management position. (I know that I would.) See also the Peter Principle.
- lnsru 8y agoI am not high performer. It doesn’t give me real benefit. +5% salary isn’t worth working evenings and weekends silently from home.
- wirrbel 8y agoThat is not exactly how it works in my IG Metall-run company. Although the range of jobs bound to unionized salary level, if you are außertariflich (i.e. above the union-negotiated salary level) you have a similar system with steps. Of course at one point in the hierarchy people probably earn heaps of money, but middle management and even senior management still is in a similar system.