> Your skills and experience are what get you ahead truly In my experience are most people who get promotions and most money, the ones who talk the most bullsh

> Your skills and experience are what get you ahead truly In my experience are most people who get promotions and most money, the ones who talk the most bullshit and shout the loudest. Especially people who just keep talking for talking sake and use a lot of abbreviations and tech terms, thus sounding like they know everything to management while in reality suck at everything, are quite common. One of my ‘colleagues’ in a company I consult for at the moment, is the head devops, he talks so much that I think he has some undiagnosed issue; he puts kubernetes ‘words’ (control plane, sidecar, compute mesh, bla bla) into every sentence even if we are not talking about devops at all. Then when he actually needs make a docker file, he fires up chatgpt and spends hours testing and finishing it. It’s his job ffs. And he got promoted over the other guy who I barely see and who actually does the work. They are 2 guys on the devops team so neither is supposed to be managing only or anything. It’s just one current example but all the companies I visit have a bunch of these and they are often more ‘respected’ than the skill and experience people, money wise. It is a reason why I made my own company and come in as a tech consultant instead; no use for this crap in my life; if they don’t pay my yearly inflation/market corrections, I just drop them. Clients enough.