That’s what I’ve always heard. I owned VMWare stock and it’s been prolly my best of all time.
I interpreted it to mean those employees aren't actually putting in their notice. You as a manager are only supposed to pretend they are.... And decide if you'd want to see them go or not. If you decide you wouldn't miss them, give 'em the axe now.
Only a small fraction of people have enough self discipline to work remotely. Unless you’re a super star with unique skills, working remotely is a sure way to stifle your career path.
Not unlike the employee differentiation system that Jack Welch (GE) used and promoted. It has some benefits, especially for larger or high growth companies.
High salaries with these positions and I agree with you. It's competitive. No risk, no reward. You want to make the big bucks, you have to put in the time and be a company slave. I have a few friends who work in environments like this, they make great salaries and have stock benefits, but they are always working and always on the road so it's a compromise.
Where I work is like being in a catty High School again. Three people got a promotion over me and others. Two of them have less overall experience, in everything yet are buddy buddy with a couple of managers. Top it off the management allowed people to be promoted in secret which violates Colorado's equal opportunity employment act. Everyone is jumping ship. The only upside is that the people who were promoted didn't even get raises.Yeah my last job said let us know if there’s anything we can do. That’s open-ended—I took it as now or in the future. If I said well I want $25k more. They’d have said fine and I’d be in the very same situation with more salary. Not helping myself. There was an underlying reason why I would leave an ok job. Not money.
And a person more senior than the director said break a leg and if you ever want to come back just let us know. Unbelievably she passed away in her early 40s, I was shocked. A former coworker I never spoke to wound up at my current co and we laughed we worked 1 aisle apart yet never spoke at the last co. And he said nobody knows what happened to the VP.
This is my long-winded way of saying I agree with you.
If a company's workers across the board feel like they're being exploited, this may be the best time since the 1930s to form a union. Like at Starbucks or the Amazon warehouses. Workers at the Volkswagen plant in Tennessee recently voted to join the UAW. These people all work hard and are probably undercompensated for what they do. More power to them.
I was just in a town hall meeting and YRC which was just Yellow when I was a kid, came up. That is an example where the union failed its members and very sad.
You can't have a union in an industry like Silicon Valley - or Netflix. These types of jobs require initiative, creativity, attention to detail, the desire to excel, freedom of thought, etc. The zero sum game is a powerful motivator so YOU are the one to EARN the salary increase rather than someone else. This is what sets people apart in engineering positions, and Silicon Valley in general. It's the survival of the fittest, do or die, do it better than the other person. Unionizing this type of work would kill the entire industry.
My dad who ran a software co in the 90s said what you are. He posed a question to me. How do I quantify productivity. Lines of code? If so, they write more lines, which may be inefficient. Also he said some musicians who studied music theory make excellent programmers.
Quiet quitting wasn't coined by workplaces. We were using the term at a Fortune 10 company (amongst middle management) before it got all popular on Reddit (antiwork sub etc....) and became mainstream.
Exactly right. How do you quantify an engineer's contributions when there's more than one way to skin a cat? That's why jobs like these cannot be unionized.
Sort of related, my wife did it 2X.
HR and plant director was aware in my case also. I am about 98% sure that the manager change (they actually created a new position tailor made for me under a different manager) was because my then 15 year track record of being able to get along with EVERYONE else in the company, including the 3-4 previous managers I'd worked for, and Manager Satanette had been through a half dozen or so direct reports during her 3 year tenure, all of whom were "uncoachable" per her.
Exactly!
