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.
Return to office propaganda floating around LinkedIn
Submitted 3 days ago by FenrirIII@lemmy.world to workreform@lemmy.world
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CuddlyCassowary@lemmy.world 3 days ago
AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
Does linkedin they also have instructional infographics on how to get a raise or promotion by blackmailing or extorting your boss?
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 day ago
sleeping with the boss if you are a hot secretary
DupaCycki@lemmy.world 2 days ago
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?
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
Funny how, even in their weird masturbatory LinkedIn fever dreams, the person still ends up going from working in office five days a week, to four.
So apparently all of this was still worth it.
nosuchanon@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Or you can skip all that and leave after year 2 and get a better paying job.
TWeaK@lemmy.today 2 days ago
A raise with no promotion = more pay for the same responsibilities.
Year 3 sounds divine.
froufox@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
year 3 is bullshit. you pick team days, and come all together
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 2 days ago
Yeah. The value of having everyone be in the office isn’t the furniture.
FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Who stays at a job for 6 years? Almost everyone I know who is trying to climb the ladder changes companies at least every 3-4 years.
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 2 days ago
Take the money saved by not commuting, and invest it. The ROI on that investment gives you more than your Year 06 raise in Year 01.
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 3 days ago
TLDR: Capitalism is stupid
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 days ago
That’s a lot of words to say “Office politics is important.”
Remote workers know this. They aren’t necessarily looking for a promotion, with more responsibilities, although everybody wants more money. Working remotely can already feel like a promotion.
And if I had to come in to the office a couple of days a week, I’d make sure that at least one of them was on the same day as my boss. Scheduling your office days against your boss’ seems like you are deliberately avoiding them. If I were the boss, I’d certainly take it that way, and make sure we cross paths at least once a week.
But the remote worker has already made the calculation that working at home has advantages that outweigh promotions, and perhaps even raises. If they can get their 40 hour job done in 10-15 hours at home, they can devote that extra time to another job, or their hobby, or family, or training for the Olympics, or something.
Spacehooks@reddthat.com 2 days ago
Not spending 500$ per month on commute, or another 500 on food because no space in work fridge, Plus more sleep from no commute Is INSTANT value.
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 3 days ago
You sit at home in your work pod, oblivious to the free ice cream, nachos, and hot oil massages your colleagues are enjoying right now at the office.
sleepmode@lemmy.world 2 days ago
We need a new plague.
sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
Hopefully they learned from recent history and do it right this time around.
Waterpumpee@lemmus.org 3 days ago
07++ You die childless full of remorse because your job couldnt support a SAHM and required you to drive to office everyday so no time to see your would be children.
MehBlah@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Why are you not being a big enough suckass? Come on people why can’t we just go back to the way things were when small minded narcissists ruled the workforce. When you are not around in person how am I going to get my narcissistic supply? Won’t someone think of the narcissists? /s…sorta
rogsson@piefed.social 2 days ago
Buahahahhah laughs in try-to-get-rid-of-my-remote-ass-being-invaluable
tootoughtoremember@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Y’all got raises?
daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
If I wanted my job to like this I would have become an actress.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 days ago
🤮
k0e3@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
I wouldn’t even care for a promotion if I’m making enough to sustain my living and happy.
altphoto@lemmy.today 2 days ago
What a bunch of shit. I go to work every day because I like what I get to do and I need to be there. If I didn’t like what I do or need to be there, fuck traffic. Fuck driving at all, and frankly, I didn’t put my balls on the line to declare my love to the woman I married just to spend most of my life with some randos. I want to be home having all sorts of sex with her all the time possible for us to do that…but I do like the things I do. So honey, I’ll be a little late but keep my couch warm okay?
wildncrazyguy138@fedia.io 3 days ago
I think this very much depends on the person. My boss is one of those types who feels more connected when he is talking around the water cooler. I am very much not. Before him as boss, I was very much thriving in a remote/travel gig, under him, I am very much not.
Not to say I’m going to change my remote status, for one, I’m 1000 miles away. If I change anything, it would be places of employment.
As for this infographic? Like most things in life - it depends. Figure out your boss, and your boss’s boss. Then do what you need to do to achieve your goals.
Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 3 days ago
My goal? Not to get promoted. I don’t want to manage people.
harmbugler@piefed.social 2 days ago
Yep. I’ll take the raise and pass on the promotion thanks. And no promotion is worth spending 10 hours a week commuting (to me).
corey931@lemmy.wtf 2 days ago
Research is with me that they perceive employees at the office as more committed, promotion-worthy even though there’s no evidence for that. It’s just the people who are fine playing the ineffective corporate game.
Imo the problem is lack of structured evaluation systems that’s perpetuated by dinosaurs for managers, lazy and/or incompetent managers without context who don’t want structured evaluation systems, so they can keep stroking their egos instead of making the company perform better, wasting everybody’s time with this BS
Demdaru@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Object permamence this, object permamence that…
In short, either yer liked or not, your effectiveness doesn’t matter. If boss cannot molest you 1v1 or stalk your ugly mug, you are worthless.
dandi8@fedia.io 3 days ago
Disgusting.
SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Sounds like advice I’d get from my Silent Gen parents, if they’d known what working from home was.
Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
I have no idea what office people do. From my research they sit in front of computers and write emails, frown at the occasional spreadsheet, and grow more irritated the more interaction they have to have with coworkers they don’t want to copulate with.
They also get evasive and defensive when you ask them what their job title means.
If they can get paid to forward emails and avoid social interaction from home, thermodynamically, that seems more efficient. To me, at least.
InputZero@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Worked on both sides, some people are just email coordinators but often times what’s actually happening in the office is planning. I’ve worked in manufacturing so the planning is forming contracts with suppliers for raw materials, planning the logistics of getting those raw materials from the supplier to the plant, scheduling time for PMs, scheduling people’s shifts to process the raw materials, negotiating with customers, planning the logistics of getting the finished goods to your customers, ensuring compliance with governing body’s, arbitrating employee grievances, ensuring that you’re meeting the requirements of the industrial insurance policy, develop improvements to the processes, ensure compliance with corporate, audit the systems for improvement, maintain health and safety, manage budgets for literally everything the company does, and that’s just off the top of my head. A good office in manufacturing at least isn’t noticeable because everything is done and ready for production when they need it.
AmyAye@nord.pub 2 days ago
I can’t work remote because sometimes I have to work on physical servers but when I am in the office, I am the only person in the building half the time so I mostly play games on my personal laptop.
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 2 days ago
Heehee this reads perfectly like a monologue from “Resident Alien” :D
kayazere@feddit.nl 2 days ago
This sadly aligns with my company. Remote workers remaining from before the forced return to office can’t get a promotion unless they move to a city with an official office. This is actually the stayed company policy, not an unspoken policy.
topperharlie@lemmy.world 2 days ago
you don’t need to leave your job in order to start looking for a new one, you know that, right?
Also, looking for a job while working puts you in a powerful position.
frongt@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
“slop on linkedin? better put the slop on lemmy too”