Posted on 08/24/2022 8:27:24 AM PDT by Brookhaven
No, it's not guaranteed. If it was this wouldn't be an issue. Workers have seen too many people, including their parents, do exactly that only to get burned out or laid off. The only thing guaranteed is a slice of cold pizza. If there's any left. Probably with pineapple.
The term I like to use is “mailing it in”.
Someone is physically on the job, but mentally they are in another location.
If HR wants you to stop acting white then definitely stop the innovation and hard work!
“Your integrity to yourself is one of the most important things you can have. You always do the best job you can.”
I always gave good bosses 100% of my effort.
Bad bosses got what they gave—and of course I always got out of there as soon as practical.
Giving 100% effort to a bad boss is just empowering them.
If you have that attitude then you have given up and you will just get that slice of pizza.
Rise above it.
I don’t know you, but guaranteed if I met you I would see skills and talent that you could leverage and move ahead.
On the contrary, if you let a defeatist attitude rule, you won’t move ahead. It’s truly a choice we all make.
And some days and situations do suck for all of us.
But you get up, and maybe that day you put a fake smile on your face and move forward.
Been there, done that.
I won’t let the negative forces dictate my life.
The point of working hard is to gain the experience so you can start your own company.
Well said, 100% spot on.
Zig Ziglar called it traveling — people in one place thinking about being somewhere else.
I can’t fault people for wanting to be elsewhere, but do the best now and then move on. Nobody benefits from complacency.
If you REALLY want to get ahead, work for yourself instead of someone else, deliver excellent service/products to your customers so that they come to you instead of someone else, and hire good people and motivate them to give 110% by compensating them for it.
In the rat race, even if you win, you’re still a rat.
Yup.
I joined the workforce in 2000 after a Masters degree and was super passionate for the first 8 years. It was rewarded by rapid promotions etc.
But now I’ve seen too many 30+ year veterans of companies being kicked to the curb with not even a golden handshake.
My first goal until I was 35 was the FIRE movement - Financial Independence, Retire early. Work hard, earn a lot, invest in stocks and live at a lower level.
It paid off so that I could technically retire at 40. But i’m not going to do that - I’d be bored. Instead I can set my own hours and do what I like to do at work - and get paid for it.
Over 40 you might as well be dead as far as most companies are concerned. Nobody cares how passionate or skilled you are, management cares that they can replace you with a new grad or outsource your job cheaper.
The art history or accounting major at the director or VP level is only dimly aware of the core competencies of the company, if at all. But he is capable of grasping that your salary number is bigger than his other options.
My former employer laid off seven people in July, most of them experienced, industry professionals. I was supposed to be one of them but I had a job lined up before the hammer dropped. They are now foundering with no mid-level leadership to help right the ship. The “CE Hoe” is a total cluster-flub. She has a big mouth with little mental acuity aside from talking loud and insulting her staff. This is a perfect example of too many chiefs, and not enough indians. Since the big layoff, they have lost six other people and just yesterday hung out a help wanted sign. It was a total salary dump and now they’re losing customers and junior-level staff because they don’t have any hands-on leadership. Even the 22-year-olds I was working with recognize the lack of leadership. It’s short-sighted thinking like this that is causing middle-aged people like myself to think early retirement.
Good grief. There’s been a sizable portion of the workforce that has done this for years. From Boomers onward.
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