Tech firms face growing resentment of parent employees during Covid-19

Re:Tech firms face growing resentment of parent employees du... by luckylion on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @04:35PM (#24413012)

> Assuming all 4 people want a promotion, there are only 2 slots. It doesn't take a genius to understand that there isn't a solution to fit all

That's the point: which two are promoted? The ones that did more work or the ones that did less work?

> More importantly the initial assumption is wrong, not everybody care about promotion.

"Let me take your hypothetical situation and inject a bunch of fantasy to solve it". That's basically "I just cast a magic spell at the trolley so I don't need to decide. Check Mate

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Re:Tech firms face growing resentment of parent employees du... by user5994461 on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @04:47PM (#24413142)

You should realize that the trolley was never a trolley.

I don't know you but I will take a guess that you're young and on the initial ramp up in your career? HN is certainly filled with high competent high achievers.

That's not the case for everybody though. Many employees are happy to chug along and get a regular paycheck, doing work but preferably not too much work.

Either way, careers will slow down significantly after a decade (if you go up aggressively enough), you're senior and paid relatively well, there is no easy path up anymore. You don't mind much whether you will get this year's award and 5% raise that comes with it, that's no factor in deciding what to do of your life and where to work.

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