If you document know how in procedures, train peers, or fix ongoing issues, you no longer are no longer the only expert and needed. If you intentionally gate keep info, omit or spread false information, leave problems or intentionally sabotage and cause issues, then you become known as the only solution and get to stay for decades as the module expert.
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@ca I always saved my reports/presentations as PDFs with my name on every page. People could steal my work but it made it a little more work to do so.
This has not been my experience and not limited only to Intel. Do a project well and you'll get more responsibility. Demonstrate capability. Demonstrate that you can do things faster than others. I have never seen a manager blatantly plagarize someone's work like that and there is no reason a manager would need to anyway as they are not expected to actually do the work, that's why they have employees. But if that happened to me, good time to ask for a promotion. If you don't get it, go somewhere else.
@OP I believe it was Mike Rowe who said the key to a great, long career is to find something everyone hates doing, then get really good at it. That way you're always in demand and nobody wants to take your job.
@c3 I had a manager previously who gave me an assignment to write a white paper and accompanying PPT for senior management. It took me weeks to get everything the way I wanted it. I turned it over to her and when the meeting came she showed my presentation, but had replaced my name with hers. Slimy people who cheat & steal tend to make it into management.
If you are good at your job, you need to work super late evening meetings to train your low cost geo replacements.
People doing good job are more vulnerable at Intel. The same thing happened to me. I documented well and taught everyone what I did and what I know. The result is one of the least-knowledgeable took my documents, presented to the higher management and became a big manager now. This happened in TD Automation.
Why people do not know become managers? Because they cheat and could not do anything real.
This is terrible advice.
I worked for over 25 years, including in the fab, and in every role I demonstrated how procedural documentation and the definition of routine tasks could be used to improve continuity (because people come and go all the time), productivity and efficiency.
The result was watching others, often seemingly more sucessful employees get ISP while I kept finding new roles to explore and make better.
The ability to create consise, effective and efficient desktop procedures to standardize all routine tasks, can and should be sold as your brand.
It is valuable because others either don't know how to do it or think that they are keeping a secret.
They are fooling no one and then they get ISP.
@OP This is precisely the reason at Intel you find so many experts unwilling to help or show you how they did something. People live in fear that someone will learn how they do what they do, and they'll become obsolete. The general consensus among employees at Intel is that the company only keeps employees around until they can figure out how to get things done without them.
Facts
Having Intel on your resume is now the new scarlet letter. No one wants to hire people from a failing company that worked on failing projects. Why bring in someone whose work didn’t work and caused a well known brand and American institution to die? It’s simple. Downvote all you want but sometimes the truth hurts. The sooner you accept this the sooner you can adjust and adapt and evolve to find your next position.
"Professions" are rarely appreciated in today's world. If your not upwardly mobile, dysfunctional management teams consider you a POS.
100% fact, take my up vote.
this mindset is exactly why this place su-ks
I second that second-hand emotion!
this is 100% true. Similar thing happened to me.