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shalafi@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Y’all should employ my “Hawkeye Pierce Theory of Work”. You bust your ass right off the bat, get really good and knowledgeable, get recognized as such. At worst, you get a lateral promotion doing something you would rather be doing, or gain the juice to do what you want to do and leave the lazy people to do the crappy parts of the job. In any case, they dare not get rid of you.
If that doesn’t work you a) are not the top employee you think you are or b) need to get another job. I turned down a job that’s considered pretty good around here by our biggest employer. They made it damned clear I wasn’t going anywhere or doing anything else for at least a year. Nope.
Pringles@sopuli.xyz 17 hours ago
This is how I work too tbh. Yes, you get more work, but then if it really becomes too much, they will just assign others to help you out (at least, that’s how it always went with me) and then you start delegating. You drill them, they become good, you delegate more. That frees up time for you to actually improve and automate stuff, freeing up more time for the delegates, allowing you to focus even more on making their and your life easier.
I’m in IT, so this might not work in every job type, but I’ve done this in every position I was in and it always worked so far.
binarytobis@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
I can’t even imagine this actually happening, even at the better companies I’ve worked at. Closest I’ve seen is when someone is so overloaded that they quit, then management decides to hire two people to replace them so they can “catch up”.
Pringles@sopuli.xyz 5 hours ago
Maybe it’s a cultural thing? I’ve only ever worked for Belgian and Dutch companies (and one Austrian one, but that was a project of only a couple of months).
All those companies were meritocratic and had an active agenda of nurturing talent.
binarytobis@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Oh yeah that sounds nice, it’s almost certainly a cultural thing haha. Here in the US it sucks.