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I've learned that appearances can be just as important as actually being productive. ie It's important that the big bosses know who you are and think you are p

I've learned that appearances can be just as important as actually being productive. ie It's important that the big bosses know who you are and think you are productive, and sometimes that means being less productive in order to show that you are productive.

mdgrech23 3y ago
Feel this speaks how to the social classes omnipresent in our world. We want to pretend we live in a classless society but we really don't. If you have to work for a living you're working class. Too many people these days have become corporate sympathizers trying to justify this absurd bonuses to CEOs.
- enneff 3y ago
  Who in 2023 is under the illusion that we live in a classless society??
  - aksss 3y ago
    Who in the 21st century still thinks classless societies are even possible? I can't think of a single attempt in reality that succeeded, and it's been tried across cultures and via different methods. It's always a good thing to strive towards (like achieving 100% or 0), but never possible. And class mobility (in both directions) is a great attribute to have - resists classes turning into castes. "There will always be something to envy" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_GzXcTkzNU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_GzXcTkzNU
  - Gormo 3y ago
    People differ from each other in countless particular attributes, but it's entirely a subjective and value-laden activity to select a small subset of those attributes and define a "class" against them.
    - zo1 3y ago
      It doesn't have to be quantifiable and easily-defined for it to be true in some abstract sense. I'd compare it to multi-dimensional clustering analysis.
zikduruqe 3y ago
Looking like I was busy is the hardest job I have ever had.
techdmn 3y ago
I am endlessly annoyed by the gap between providing value and appearing to provide value. In an ideal world management would be able to distinguish between those working hard to serve customers, improve the bottom line, etc, and those working hard to give that appearance, rewarding the former and penalizing the latter. The gap between such a world and the one I regularly experience however, is so wide as to be nearly unfathomable.

mdgrech23 3y ago

Feel this speaks how to the social classes omnipresent in our world. We want to pretend we live in a classless society but we really don't. If you have to work for a living you're working class. Too many people these days have become corporate sympathizers trying to justify this absurd bonuses to CEOs.

enneff 3y ago
Who in 2023 is under the illusion that we live in a classless society??
- aksss 3y ago
  Who in the 21st century still thinks classless societies are even possible? I can't think of a single attempt in reality that succeeded, and it's been tried across cultures and via different methods. It's always a good thing to strive towards (like achieving 100% or 0), but never possible. And class mobility (in both directions) is a great attribute to have - resists classes turning into castes. "There will always be something to envy" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_GzXcTkzNU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_GzXcTkzNU
- Gormo 3y ago
  People differ from each other in countless particular attributes, but it's entirely a subjective and value-laden activity to select a small subset of those attributes and define a "class" against them.
  - zo1 3y ago
    It doesn't have to be quantifiable and easily-defined for it to be true in some abstract sense. I'd compare it to multi-dimensional clustering analysis.

zikduruqe 3y ago

Looking like I was busy is the hardest job I have ever had.

techdmn 3y ago

I am endlessly annoyed by the gap between providing value and appearing to provide value. In an ideal world management would be able to distinguish between those working hard to serve customers, improve the bottom line, etc, and those working hard to give that appearance, rewarding the former and penalizing the latter. The gap between such a world and the one I regularly experience however, is so wide as to be nearly unfathomable.