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If you do your job right, you look lazy and they ask why they are paying you in the first place. If you have no idea what you are doing, you run around, look r
by mhurron 13y ago
If you do your job right, you look lazy and they ask why they are paying you in the first place.
If you have no idea what you are doing, you run around, look really busy and that justifies your position.
Shitty companies fire the first guy and keep the second.
- Agathos 13y ago"When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all." -- God(?), Futurama
- teddyh 13y agoThat is from the Daodejing (Tao Te Ching), chapter 17. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Tao_Te_Ching_%28Wikisource_translation%29#Chapter_17_.28.E7.AC.AC.E5.8D.81.E4.B8.83.E7.AB.A0.29 https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Tao_Te_Ching_%28Wikisource_tr...
- VexXtreme 13y agoThere's a guy in my company who rose to upper-middle management faster that anyone I've ever seen. The key to his success was constantly running around, getting social exposure by talking to everybody (about inane bullshit most of the time) and trying to make himself look important. In the meantime, we lost a really good engineer who was thought to be a slacker because he was a quiet guy and wouldn't expose himself too much. This sociopathic and pathologic behavior is very common in companies run by "business people with ideas" instead of engineers. It's all based on chest beating, who you know and how much of a smooth talker you are. It's like being in high school all over again. Meritocracy is nowhere to be found.