lol what a load of bullshit
Happened to me... Except that before last step I quit.
Left a job of 10 years, project lead senior engineer, because fuckers FAFO'd an RTO. Of a team of 5, I was one they expected to stay because I was "close to the office". I was the first one to find a new, full time remote job.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
AI bullshit!
Whoever came up with this has probably always used 'optics first, actual results last' in their shitty career so far.
Not having a conversation with my supervisor for months at a time is literally the dream.
Promoted twice since I last saw my boss in person. I asked him if would see any issue himself or for the company if I relocated myself back across the country closer to family; he was confused as to why I even asked.
He's not even a particularly good boss in most ways, but tons of people want to work for him because he stays the fuck out of their way.
he stays the fuck out of their way.
That's like, 70% of good management.
Another 20% is keeping everyone else out of the way too.
Honestly, this is the real underrated trick. A great manager removes blockers. Their job is first and foremost to get shit off the train tracks.
I had a manager who wanted to know what we did. Understand it. Really get into the info, because only then could she really lead us, she thought.
Worst manager I had for a long while. She didn't understand anything and was easily annoyed by it. We were software engineers, she some media marketing whatever person. That ain't gonna happen.
Yeah. The one time you actually need a manager is when you have some fuck-up of a coworker who's making things worse for everybody.
The secret to this is not believing in the promotion fairy.
If you want a promotion, apply for it at another company. If you get it, awesome, if you don't, try at a 3rd company.
At my current job, the agreement is I do the job you hired me for, and you give me the money and benefits we agreed upon.
All I see reading this is that managers and CEOs have never reached the object permanence phase of brain development, and need to be constantly visually reminded their employees exist or they'll never promote them regardless of the work they do.
But then, I guess no manager of a multi-office company has had a team member in another location prior to COVID, so how could they possibly have planned for what to do in that situation.
My takeaway is that internal promotions aren't based on merit and you gotta schmooze.
Love it when they state so clearly that promotions are a byproduct of office politics, not actual work performance.
Year 1: "incredibly productive"
Year 5: "not about the work"
I love how they freely admit that it has nothing to do with being good at your job and everything to do with schmoozing.
Like that's really the purpose of the company... manufacturing schmooze, so we need good schmoozers
Well ok then, in their own words, managers are incompotent morons who lack object permanence and have no idea how to gauge the usefulness or productivity or worth of any employee... without being able to invade their personal space and randomly question them.
Replace them with LLMs, LLMs would do a better job, these people don't deserve to be paid anything, they do literally nothing useful that a hopped up autocomplete algorithm can't do to the same effectiveness.
nobody connects to it the four days
WHAT THE FUCK ARE THEY TALKING ABOUT I HATE THIS WORLD
I find it interesting how "the promotion" is an end in itself. No context, no details, just "the promotion". And you didn't get it! Tsk, tsk, tsk.
Of course, because promotion is the only way to get ahead, by taking on more responsibilities and managing other people, god forbid you'd get a raise just for being really good at what you do.
LinkedIn is such wanker filled trash
Ah ... a participation trophy based business strategy.
Don't to to the office. People who think up shit like the above are there.
I've been wfh for like a year now and just got promoted to cloud engineer. I'm good, thanks
No, you shouldn't feel good. Just think about the promotionest promotional promotion you would get promoted into if you you showed up in person! Someone out there got it instead!
/s just in case
So... You still working on rain or have you been promoted to snow?
Wait: You're not one of those sleet people, are you?
With the comic style plagiarized here, I fully expected throwing a baby to be one of the steps...
It's real, but it frames it as though it's the employees fault for not doing self-promotion rather than the manager's fault for not keeping track of all the team members it's his job to support.
100% shitty management - remote workers force managers to do more than just float around an office having hallway conversations.
"You got the promotion, yet somehow your quality of life is shittier because you are spending 1/4th of your net pay on gas and eating out and child care and you had to get rid of your dog because you are not around enough to properly handle an animal, plus you have 10 hours less free time during the week because of your commute."
And let's be fair, no one is getting the promotion.
Do companies even still promote people? I've never seen major raises without having to switch jobs anywhere I've worked.
Because those employers are hoarding the money that would go towards a raise, only shoveling it into the maws of their CEOs and shareholders.
They don't show the alternative where he spent the commuting time applying for jobs.
Year 3: I get a new job that values my output instead of my physical location.
Year 4: I still laugh about the morons in managment.
If it isn't about the work then TF is it about?
I go to work for MONEY. You pay to make you MONEY. For me to make you money, you need me to WORK
It is about the work.
Now pay me more
It's about an AI generated sense of accomplishment.
Year 3: From your home office, you spearhead multiple high level projects which triple the billable hours of your department. You are not in the office enough to lick the asshole of your manager so Bob the intern gets the promotion. Bob will be paid entry level salary and really knows how to get the tongue deep in that brown hole.
Year 4: Enough is enough. You quit that stupid job and secure a job with a company that values performance based promotions and raises. No one knows anything about your projects and when you leave they whither on the vine.
Year 5: You run into Bob at the pub. He says management converted the office to AI and everyone got fired.
Year 6: You chuckle when you drive by that company you used to work for and find the building is now for lease and the company is in bankruptcy.
I appreciate the admission that promotions have nothing to do with fitness or performance.
I'll probably get downvoted, and your mileage may vary, but it's possible that being visible and in-person with your coworkers increases your chances of getting a raise or promotion.
In a perfect world it wouldn't make a difference if your performance is good in a remote position, but humans are not perfectly logical and rational creatures. There's going to be bias and emotion involved when it comes to giving promotions.
Jesus Christ, capitalists are fucking unhinged with their bullshit.
Got it. Show up to work so you can kiss your bosses ass often and in person so that they give you a promotion solely based on your in person ass licking.
Sounds to me like a broken system that promotes based on the wrong metrics....
I quit 2 jobs that had a RTO. One was Salesforce when they acquired Slack. The other was another software company that I still have an NDA with.
I'm never going back into the office. I rather make less money.
What's interesting is that I'm actually making more money doing remote because I don't need to commute or pay for lunches or happy hours anymore. Actual time spent at work calculated, I'm making 40% more $.
I’ve been working remote-first since 1998, most of the time fully remote, and ended up at the C-suite level very quickly. Try to find companies who value competency or create one yourself (I know - easier said than done). This infographic is more about how to play a stupid game at a shitty company.
"slop on linkedin? better put the slop on lemmy too"
Year 1: incredibly productive
So if productivity is up why are we going up hybrid in the first place?
I imagine most of this is actually true for a lot of companies. Not because it's a good or even sensible model. Because most companies are mismanaged due to rampant nepotism, among many other issues.
What percantage of managers you've met had any idea what they're doing?
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