Wait, why wasn’t the manager on the IRC server with the rest of us?
Love it when they state so clearly that promotions are a byproduct of office politics, not actual work performance.
The secret to this is not believing in the promotion fairy.
If you want a promotion, apply for it at another company. If you get it, awesome, if you don’t, try at a 3rd company.
At my current job, the agreement is I do the job you hired me for, and you give me the money and benefits we agreed upon.
Whoever came up with this has probably always used ‘optics first, actual results last’ in their shitty career so far.
Everything in that meme is categorically untrue and complete nonsense.
lol what a load of bullshit
I’m sure there is a little truth to it sometimes but one big thing this ignores is that many of us have always had remote coworkers because our employer has multiple offices in different cities, countries, and continents around the world. I’m not worried about someone who’s in the office with my boss passing me by because that’s a tiny minority of everyone we work with anyway.
Interestingly, this is also why WFH has held up at the company where I work. Even when you go in to the office, you spend half the day on zoom. Our company has consolidated floors, closed whole offices and entire campuses to reduce the amount of real estate it pays to maintain. There’s a lot of savings in it for them. And our CEO has said that he likes how remote work makes it trivial to get the entire leadership team together for a conversation because they aren’t all flying around the world constantly, inaccessible for days at a time because they’re traveling. They do make in person visits, but don’t live on planes like they used to. They also did the math and they exceeded their 10 year goal for climate reduction overnight just by going to remote.
There are so many benefits for the company as well as the employees that I’m really confused why some companies go all RTO. Probably they just don’t have good systems in place to know who’s doing their job. We do.
Happened to me… Except that before last step I quit.
Left a job of 10 years, project lead senior engineer, because fuckers FAFO’d an RTO. Of a team of 5, I was one they expected to stay because I was “close to the office”. I was the first one to find a new, full time remote job.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
I’ve been wfh for like a year now and just got promoted to cloud engineer. I’m good, thanks
So… You still working on rain or have you been promoted to snow?
Wait: You’re not one of those sleet people, are you?
I’m full on hail, baby!
How’s cloud engineer? I’m going into IT and I wanna know more about diffrent paths
IT requires constant learning. If you live to fool around with new tech, go for it.
If you hate learning new things and just want to settle on doing one thing your whole life, IT is not for you.
Whatever you’re doing at the start of your IT career is not what you’ll be doing by the time you retire. In fact, you’ll probably change your entire job/role at least a dozen times throughout your career as technologies change and evolve.
Also, learn Linux. If you don’t like the command line, there’s no future for you. All the things are moving to Linux (in business). It’s where all the big money is too.
It’s very satisfying and pays well, but there is a ton to learn.
No, you shouldn’t feel good. Just think about the promotionest promotional promotion you would get promoted into if you you showed up in person! Someone out there got it instead!
/s just in case
