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Wow, this is a great read; it also sums up about every company I've ever worked at with more than a couple hundred people. It's amazing how many people will pu
by rpcope1 12y ago
Wow, this is a great read; it also sums up about every company I've ever worked at with more than a couple hundred people. It's amazing how many people will pull in more time than absolutely necessary on things they don't care about, even at tech companies, just to "get ahead."
- kzhahou 12y agotldr please?
- brianwawok 12y agoDon't spend your entire life (i.e. lots of overtime) playing the office game for a 10% raise and a corner office, spend your life actually doing something of value... the effort:return ratio on office politics is pretty low.
- makeitsuckless 12y agoIf you've worked for multiple companies that function like that, that probably says more about you.
- rpcope1 12y agoI can't tell if that's a rather passive-aggressive ad hominem or what, but sometimes its hard to know the true inner machinations of some of our "revered" tech giants until you've seen them from the inside. Needless to say that's not somewhere I stay for long.