If you are useful, it doesn't mean you are valued

Re:If you are useful, it doesn't mean you are valued by osigurdson on Monday June 02, 2025 @09:56AM (#44158911)

I think the author is over indexing on the value that the company brings to its customers and the value that an employee beings to the company - as if there is just a kind of lossless value roll up going on here. In reality, there are many humans in the mix - various gatekeepers with all kinds of objective functions that are not necessarily aligned with the overall stated objective of the company. The better a company is, the more aligned it will be, but still good to keep in mind the gatekeeper layers in an org and what their actual objective functions are.

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Re:If you are useful, it doesn't mean you are valued by mathgeek on Monday June 02, 2025 @10:30AM (#44159226)

I think it's worth differentiating between value (i.e. having value) and valued (i.e. the people who control your future at a company seeing value in your work, whether or not it reflects reality).

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Re:If you are useful, it doesn't mean you are valued by entropicdrifter on Monday June 02, 2025 @03:59PM (#44162425)

Isn't that what the original author is doing by using "useful" to mean "adds value" vs "valued" which means what you're saying it means in this context?

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