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The Anti-Workforce

• dexwiz 3y ago
  > As with much of society, corporate America does not reward hard work so much as it rewards opportunism — the ability to show you’re useful, even if that “usefulness” isn’t necessarily about being good at your job. This is the key. Even before the pandemic, the ones valued the most in many jobs are the who show up every day. Sure, there may be some well payed rockstars with moments of genius, but that is largely a myth. The ones who get promoted to leadership are the ones who put in the most time. They don't have to to be good, just willing to play the part all day, every day. That is what forces management into this productivity performance. They got where they are by "putting in the time," so they are expected to maintain or grow the charade while simultaneously using is their prime metric to measure their reports. This combined with whatever pathological drive made them work so much, leads to bad management.