With all the layoffs we've been having lately - and sometimes it feels like they're never ending - there's no winning whether you are laid off or not. If you are laid off, you're out of a job. If you are not, you get to pick up extra work for no extra pay along with the added stress of knowing that any day it might be your turn. Either way, we're screwed.
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American Companies and Jobs are detrimental to one's health and self preservation. Not hard to see the breakdown of self, families and the society. All those high fives and awards are worthless.
I have worked for a manager who threw me under bus when things did not go well after aggressive deadlines. Don’t be a puppet, speak up and list the risks of aggressive deadlines and non-stop work culture. You can judge a person on how they handle things when everything is going downhill.
Best advice I received from my first manager coming into this industry two decades ago "Be loyal to people, not companies. You're just a number to companies, but if you're good, you'll work with the same people across multiple companies during your career."
because of this situation, individual contributors try to slow down the pace of work and fight more about overestimating the time to get things done than doing the job.
If you show you are super efficient, your boss will ask more and more and more to the point that you will burnout or do some bad mistake: so the tactic is to always push back on aggressive timelines.
Sometimes it works, others will not.
But you folks are right, corporate America is not on your side, so you try to game the system instead of being consumed and burned out.
That’s just how corporate America works. It’s not unique to VMware. Move on, do something else.
Capitalism. It's also why people create unions (and companies do everything they can to avoid them).