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I'd be curious if jobs like yours are not on the tail side of the distribution. It's very common that in work groups, curiosity / creativity gets ignored if not
by agumonkey 10mo ago
I'd be curious if jobs like yours are not on the tail side of the distribution. It's very common that in work groups, curiosity / creativity gets ignored if not punished. I've seen this even in small techies groups, there was a natural emergence of boundaries in which people don't get to think beyond (you're overstepping, that's not your role, you're doing too much). It seems a pavlovian reflex when leadership doesn't know how to operate without assigning roles.
- Eddy_Viscosity2 10mo agoI've certainly experienced this. The 'stay in your swim lane' mantra is often misapplied to people who are being curious and creative. Some (not all) managers feel undermined if people below them do anything more than exactly what they are told to do.