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Well, they also promote people based on impact and, with rare exceptions, if you're holed up in a corner someplace you're probably not having a huge amount of i
by ghaff 2y ago
Well, they also promote people based on impact and, with rare exceptions, if you're holed up in a corner someplace you're probably not having a huge amount of impact.
- floating-io 2y agoReality is that the ones quietly holed up in the corner are usually doing all the unsexy maintenance-type work that the extroverts don't want to do (because it's not sexy). Nobody cares about that work... until it doesn't get done. And so, nobody doing it gets promoted.
- ghaff 2y agoOr it gets outsourced which is what often happens.
- ambicapter 2y agoCommunicating the importance of your work is a professional skill.
- ghaff 2y agoAnd if it actually isn't very important, you should probably find something else to do or move on in some other way.
- apwell23 2y agoIf it was all about impact then ppl wouldn't be paying thousands of dollars to learn to play golf with their bosses. But you knew that already.
- ghaff 2y agoIs closing deals on the golf course even still a thing these days? I suppose it probably is in some circles but I haven't seen it in a couple of decades of tech industry life when it was more likely to be fun runs or skiing.