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Apocalypse Now, or Later, Whenever's Good for You
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Apocalypse Now, or Later, Whenever's Good for You Cocktail recipe of the day - Great Old Fashioned 4 dashes Angostura bitters 1 tsp sweet , sweet sugar 1 Orange wheel 1 Maraschino cherry 1 splash Club soda 2 oz Bourbon 1 pod star anise 1 tbsp. black milk from its innumerable breasts Yibb-Tstll When I think about which Animal Farm character I am (as we all often do) I used to always think that I was Boxer - faithful and hardworking but stupid . "Must work harder !" But lately I've started to realize that conclusion was vanity - I wanted to be seen as hard working and put upon . I see now that I'm most like Mr. Whymper . Sad but true . The other day someone wisely counseled me "You shouldn't tell your boss that you don't do anything" to which I responded "Shut up damn it !" but what I should have said was that it was more important to me to tell the truth than to "get ahead" . Some people have accused me to having a perverse need to speak against my own interest which I find offensive . If my job is to advise what jobs should be eliminated and one of them is mine I'll say that - otherwise I'm no better than a dirty thief . 'Then why do you do it in your personal life 40 ?' Shut up damn it ! I do often wonder about how people try to get ahead in the workplace - it all seems to gross and seedy . Clearly taking credit for someone else's works immoral but is it "wrong" ? People do it all the time ? What if your boss gives you credit for something you didn't do and you don't correct them ? Is that less wrong ? What if your boss says "Good work on the Johnson-Butthole merger" but you didn't work on that Carol did HOWEVER Carol doesn't work there anymore . Is that even less wrong ? '40 just work hard and you'll be recognized eventually .' I see no reason to believe that . I will now express my feelings my plagiarizing an article from Forbes . It’s not about trying harder and being better. This is the mentality that many women and people of color get sucked into–if you just put in more effort, they’ll finally have to recognize and reward your excellence. Fair is fair, right? What anyone who accepts this losing bargain fails to understand is that most of the time the job isn’t about the job. Your individual<b> performance </font></b>is only one piece of the puzzle and often doesn't influence the myriad impressions, biases, relationships, stereotypes and power dynamics that surround the job and dictate whether you'll be successful in it. Doing more or doing better doesn’t yield the meritocratic reward you expect. Some people seem to intuitively understand the dynamics at play. While you work like a dog, they scheme up a way to get ahead that doesn’t depend on talent and hard work. They decide to disrupt the paradigm. It’s perhaps too reductive a reading to say this is a lesson in the differences between how men and women treat competition and advancement–women internalizing a perceived need to push themselves harder and men focusing on tipping external factors in their own favor–but that line of thought does merit contemplation. There is a ceiling on how far you can go by following the rules. Decide the rules don’t apply or that you’re going to twist them to your benefit and suddenly possibilities–for better or worse–really open up. If you give everything to your work and you will learn in a particularly hard way the lesson that many of us still struggle to accept; fair or not, you shouldn’t expect it to give you anything back. Putting first by putting employees first, immediately after prioritizing fiscal responsibilities and leveraging profitability towards exceeding by empowering our employees to put (and themselves) first, in a diverse and respectful environment of only those that come first, first. |
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I wanted to blog today but I haven't done the research yet for my history of sleepwear post so this is what you got - sorry Putting clients first by putting employees first, immediately after prioritizing fiscal responsibilities and leveraging profitability towards exceeding by empowering our employees to put clients (and themselves) first, in a diverse and respectful environment of only those that come first, first.
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Maybe I'm being simplistic but what I get out of that article is that it's more important to play work politics than to work hard. Rather a cynical viewpoint, but I suspect it's true in many workplaces. I'm HORRIBLE at playing work politics; I guess I was fortunate to land someplace where I was able to do reasonably well in spite of that. It's cool that you're being honest with your superiors but I maintain that you undervalue yourself and even though you feel you're not doing anything, you're probably doing more than most of your coworkers.   
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depends on who is in management. men or women. tbs, hard workers are generally quiet about it. the ones who are shouting are usually the ones who are not working at all. years of running agencies taught me that. snork. but then i'm a she. You cannot conceive the many without the one.
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