I think I'm gonna print these off in large font and post them in the clinic, and also use them as a training tool for new hires. #8 is especially paramount.
You don't get promoted because you won a contest that only exists on your mind. You're promoted because people who have more power than you trust you.
Not annoying those people and doing what they ask on time is the most guaranteed way to get the trust of people who have power over you.
Who have ever heard of Tim Cook while Jobs was alive? Nobody. But then look up on the web Jef Raskkin, the man holds a decades grunge against Jobs because Jobs saved the Macintosh project from this stupid gamma ideas of what the product should be. Probably someone more intelligent and creative than Tim Cook, but unlike Cook, someone who couldn't be trusted by a superior, who didn't follow orders. Someone so enamorated of his intellectual rarified ideas, he couldn't understand that Jobs was right, that Jobs understand the context of what people would want from such computers and he didn't. But more importantly, that this was Jobs's company, not his. Jobs was the CEO, he worked for the CEO.
What is the difference? Tim Cook never failed a mission that Jobs asked him, and never did them contrary to what Jobs asked. Even after Jobs death he keeps on following what Jobs commanded him to do as well as he could. Now he is retiring as a billionaire, with newspapers writing eulogies for him after having the prestige of commanding Apple for more than a decade.
Jef Raskins? After his trantum against jobs, got the autonomy he wanted to do the computer he wanted at the japanese giant Cassio. A complete commercial failure. Ended up as an adjunct professor in a University, the ideal environment for a Gamma.
Corollary to #6: Have the ready answer to the question you anticipate, but don't offer it until asked. Prepare for secondary and tertiary questions, but hold on to it.
If you own the company you are always swearing to make payroll. Owners know you would not be there if you were not paid for a job that needs doing. Do. Your. Job.
If the role of corporate wage slave -- adult day care as I refer to it -- is one you must play, you might as well learn to play it well. I do pity you however.
Some or even most are born for the bit I suppose. They need and even seem to thrive under the rule-based structures. The training for this sort of domesticated life starts early in the government run schools.
From the perspective of someone who spent a fair amount of time working in corporate America -- Fortune 500 and even Fortune 50 sized companies -- yes, pity is the correct word.
While those jobs were financially rewarding, I found the environments at best barely tolerable and completely intolerable at worst. Clearly not designed with someone like me in mind, so I made and executed on a plan to free myself. Now my time is my own. You could say I found a way to reclaim all that time and I'm much happier as a result.
Put that bit back in your mouth and get back to work. You aren't being paid to play around on the internet. Those TPS reports won't fill themselves out.
You can make it work and be highly rewarding but you a) have to keep a lot of options open at all times, b) be good at bluffing, c) be willing to leave and start fresh when the moment comes and it will come, sometimes twice a year. Then you can afford to not play by their rules. It's not a life for everyone, I did it some years ago, but it has its expiration date, so you have to plan ahead.
For the love of all that's holy own fuck ups and report it. It always gets worse if you don't. I had a major mistake and owed every bit of it, that manager could have fired me easily and he praised me instead. Another guy did the same, hid it and got fired. Mistakes happen integrity is respected.
Especially when your work involves money, and you're not inclined to move all of it for a shell company account in the British Virgin Islands, get a new passport and disappear.
I think I'm gonna print these off in large font and post them in the clinic, and also use them as a training tool for new hires. #8 is especially paramount.
If I walked into a buisness with a strong fem lead sitting all the men down. I would walk out and find a company not about to destroy itself.
Good points in the structure wont save it from that soon to be HR experience.
Great list, I've printed it out with this addition at the bottom: Control Your Gamma
You don't get promoted because you won a contest that only exists on your mind. You're promoted because people who have more power than you trust you.
Not annoying those people and doing what they ask on time is the most guaranteed way to get the trust of people who have power over you.
Who have ever heard of Tim Cook while Jobs was alive? Nobody. But then look up on the web Jef Raskkin, the man holds a decades grunge against Jobs because Jobs saved the Macintosh project from this stupid gamma ideas of what the product should be. Probably someone more intelligent and creative than Tim Cook, but unlike Cook, someone who couldn't be trusted by a superior, who didn't follow orders. Someone so enamorated of his intellectual rarified ideas, he couldn't understand that Jobs was right, that Jobs understand the context of what people would want from such computers and he didn't. But more importantly, that this was Jobs's company, not his. Jobs was the CEO, he worked for the CEO.
What is the difference? Tim Cook never failed a mission that Jobs asked him, and never did them contrary to what Jobs asked. Even after Jobs death he keeps on following what Jobs commanded him to do as well as he could. Now he is retiring as a billionaire, with newspapers writing eulogies for him after having the prestige of commanding Apple for more than a decade.
Jef Raskins? After his trantum against jobs, got the autonomy he wanted to do the computer he wanted at the japanese giant Cassio. A complete commercial failure. Ended up as an adjunct professor in a University, the ideal environment for a Gamma.
Good list.
Bill Belichick has trademarked #3.
These rules are why corporate jobs are soul crushing.
Corollary to #6: Have the ready answer to the question you anticipate, but don't offer it until asked. Prepare for secondary and tertiary questions, but hold on to it.
Ah crap. I never follow #5. I stupidly thought fewer emails were better.
I'm going to have to change my email strategy.
These are great. Especially 1 and 6.
10 reminds me of the scene in Mad Men where Don tells Peggy "that's what the money is for".
Rule 10b was hard to learn, especially when working on someone else's project which, by definition if you're a W2, is always.
If you own the company you are always swearing to make payroll. Owners know you would not be there if you were not paid for a job that needs doing. Do. Your. Job.
11. Stop gawking at the redhead and focus on the charts.
Answer the f'ing question!
If the role of corporate wage slave -- adult day care as I refer to it -- is one you must play, you might as well learn to play it well. I do pity you however.
Some or even most are born for the bit I suppose. They need and even seem to thrive under the rule-based structures. The training for this sort of domesticated life starts early in the government run schools.
I don't think about you, at all.
You pity them?
From the perspective of someone who spent a fair amount of time working in corporate America -- Fortune 500 and even Fortune 50 sized companies -- yes, pity is the correct word.
While those jobs were financially rewarding, I found the environments at best barely tolerable and completely intolerable at worst. Clearly not designed with someone like me in mind, so I made and executed on a plan to free myself. Now my time is my own. You could say I found a way to reclaim all that time and I'm much happier as a result.
6 self references. Em dashes. Superiority complex. Boy you sure check a lot of boxes.
Em dashes are just a way to hide parentheses because he knows Vox says those are gamma tells. ;-)
Gamma, fer sure.
Put that bit back in your mouth and get back to work. You aren't being paid to play around on the internet. Those TPS reports won't fill themselves out.
You can make it work and be highly rewarding but you a) have to keep a lot of options open at all times, b) be good at bluffing, c) be willing to leave and start fresh when the moment comes and it will come, sometimes twice a year. Then you can afford to not play by their rules. It's not a life for everyone, I did it some years ago, but it has its expiration date, so you have to plan ahead.
Wish these were the rules posted in corporate break rooms and websites rather than the endlessly vapid “values” or the standard HR nonsense
Sounds like a business opportunity!
For the love of all that's holy own fuck ups and report it. It always gets worse if you don't. I had a major mistake and owed every bit of it, that manager could have fired me easily and he praised me instead. Another guy did the same, hid it and got fired. Mistakes happen integrity is respected.
Especially when your work involves money, and you're not inclined to move all of it for a shell company account in the British Virgin Islands, get a new passport and disappear.
This should be given to every young person entering the job market at any level. It would save everyone involved lots of time and aggravation.