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Re:'Too many employees, but few work': Pichai, Zuckerberg so... by closeparen on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @05:07PM (#32418478)
In particular, people who never really figured out how to do more than bare minimum technical work tend to fail upwards into primarily "collaborative" roles.
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Re:'Too many employees, but few work': Pichai, Zuckerberg so... by Spivak on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @05:31PM (#32418723)
Unless I actually have substantive impact — like truly meaningful like people not one bacon distance away from me really feel it you’re getting the bare minimum.

This is the downside of trying to make knowledge workers a commodity and replaceable — work gets coasting and my side projects get my real creativity.

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Re:'Too many employees, but few work': Pichai, Zuckerberg so... by closeparen on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @05:46PM (#32418851)
I'm not talking about people who have technical side projects.
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