| ▲ | ghaff 2 days ago |
| Well, they also promote people based on impact and, with rare exceptions, if you're holed up in a corner someplace you're probably not having a huge amount of impact. |
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| ▲ | floating-io 2 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| Reality is that the ones quietly holed up in the corner are usually doing all the unsexy maintenance-type work that the extroverts don't want to do (because it's not sexy). Nobody cares about that work... until it doesn't get done. And so, nobody doing it gets promoted. |
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| ▲ | ambicapter 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Communicating the importance of your work is a professional skill. | | |
| ▲ | ghaff 2 days ago | parent [-] | | And if it actually isn't very important, you should probably find something else to do or move on in some other way. |
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| ▲ | ghaff 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Or it gets outsourced which is what often happens. |
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| ▲ | apwell23 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| If it was all about impact then ppl wouldn't be paying thousands of dollars to learn to play golf with their bosses. But you knew that already. |
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| ▲ | ghaff 2 days ago | parent [-] | | Is closing deals on the golf course even still a thing these days? I suppose it probably is in some circles but I haven't seen it in a couple of decades of tech industry life when it was more likely to be fun runs or skiing. | | |
| ▲ | apwell23 2 days ago | parent [-] | | closing deals with your boss? what does that even mean. | | |
| ▲ | ghaff a day ago | parent [-] | | Getting a promotion? But my broader point was that golf course socializing seems like mostly a different world today, at least in my tech circles, relative to other venues. |
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