Re:Microsoft to lay off 11,000 employees
by kristopolous on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @10:51PM
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Sure.
You can be entrusted to work on your own little bet project for somebody in a C suite and you become so low on the priority that you're out of mind.
During a power vacuum, you can play teams off each other in a multiple bosses strategy and appeal upstream in the org chart. The exploit here is the company hierarchy in practice is closer to the Habsburg monarchy than some binary tree.
The multiple boss play can get you to a no boss play in this situation because each one will assume you're doing important things on other projects.
All of this requires a keen skill at social engineering. I worked at a place where I didn't have a meeting with anybody for about a year. I played the meetings off each other at first and they all slowly became optional and eventually I got them off my calendar.
I should probably use my time doing better things but I'm really lazy.
You can be entrusted to work on your own little bet project for somebody in a C suite and you become so low on the priority that you're out of mind.
During a power vacuum, you can play teams off each other in a multiple bosses strategy and appeal upstream in the org chart. The exploit here is the company hierarchy in practice is closer to the Habsburg monarchy than some binary tree.
The multiple boss play can get you to a no boss play in this situation because each one will assume you're doing important things on other projects.
All of this requires a keen skill at social engineering. I worked at a place where I didn't have a meeting with anybody for about a year. I played the meetings off each other at first and they all slowly became optional and eventually I got them off my calendar.
I should probably use my time doing better things but I'm really lazy.
These are all hacks. YMMV.