I am going to keep this simple because I am tired of watching the same thing happen. I have seen people give this job every waking hour, burn themselves out completely, and then blame only themselves when they got let go. They never saw it coming because they believed hard work would be enough. It is not enough. The people who survive here are not the hardest workers. They are the best talkers, the best networkers, the best at being visible in the right moments and invisible in the wrong ones. If you are not one of those people, at least stop giving this place more than a fair day's work. It does not love you back. It will not remember your overtime. Save that energy for yourself.
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That's ok, I don't want to. Just want my severance.
That seemed to always be the case to get a promotion. Now it's swung so far that it's needed to just keep your job.
This->”The people who survive here are not the hardest workers. They are the best talkers, the best networkers, the best at being visible in the right moments and invisible in the wrong ones.”
"the Meridian Webster dictionary" lol
@a7 Meritocracy? Are you kidding me? That word should be removed from the Meridian Webster dictionary! It went out when that ridiculous policy/program called DiversityEquityInclusion (DEI) was introduced solely to curry favor with those un-named special interest groups! What a joke it was!
Remember if a manager truly wants to see you succeed they’d develop you.
Instead politics come into play and they’ll flock to someone else for the slightest transgression.
Wells has an explicit strategy of trying to shrink headcount "by attrition as much as possible" (in the CEOs words). When that's your strategy, fundamentally you're thinking of people in terms of pure numbers, not in terms of their contributions or capabilities. Any action you take to encourage attrition, RTO or intrusive monitoring or what have you, the people most likely to give you the attrition you're after are the people with options, i.e. your most talented people. After years of pursuing this strategy you're mostly going to be left with the people who can't do any better.
And that's just the voluntary attrition side of the equation. If you look at where WF is taking active steps to remove or retain people, there's zero evidence there either that they really care about individual contribution either. Their primary strategies for layoffs have been location strategy and offshoring. Location is indifferent to talent, I've seen talented engineers let go and inept engineers kept, because they lived in des moines vs charlotte. And while some of the india folks I've worked with have been fine people, taken on average their contributions on the work I've been involved with has been unimpressive (to say the least).
Honestly the biggest evidence keeping your job at wells has nothing to do with contributions is the fact I'm still around. I'm a lazy git and I've managed to cockroach my way through half a dozen layoffs where scores of people better than me were let go.
Your hard work will not save you. Its hilarious that you think it will
Its evidence that meritocracy is a myth. You can be the most valuable employee, work side projects, help others, make your boss look good, and still be let go without a second thought. If the place you're devoting your time to doesn't value you, why would you value them?
Sometimes It's not you, it is your skin color