If you are wondering why: nobody wants to work with an asshole, no matter how good he is at his job.
You’re gonna spend so much time with your coworkers, like 7-8 hours a day, five days a week, these are some of the people you will spend the most time in your life. You really don’t want to hate their guts.
Yeah. Dealing with this as we speak. I’m friendly, get the job done, money where my mouth is “work ethic”. I’m not an asshole. But I did get hired for my role over an internal employee. An employee with sway, and has actively used that sway to secretly disparage me and the work I was doing. If he likes you, golden. Promotions, new friends groups, the works. But if he doesn’t, you’re done.
He’s managed to get me fired (next Monday) and yesterday came out gloating on a call with just me to let me know. This truth being verified by a 2 week payslip direct deposit pending on Monday (payday was today). My “crime”? Getting the work done he felt wasn’t “the right work”. He said, “I could have forgiven you taking my job I wanted, but you chose to ignore my project work I wanted done and implement things we don’t need (with list)”. I was hired to do just that, but I guess it wasn’t enough or the right thing. I’ll find out “why” (or how) I’m being fired Monday.
Politics is insane in enterprise. They’ll spend millions on consultants to get work done. One person with power can sabotage another out of pure spite. They have no interest in progress, they just want the status quo where they’re on top. Or an employee who just wants to get the work done without more effort to do it right.
On more positive news, I was already interviewing elsewhere. Final interviews today on one. Next place I’ll just play the game better.
Ouch. Sorry about that. This is frustrating because there’s always been some useless employees every place I’ve worked. Humans are just not very efficient, so really, the work isn’t the reason.
A great truth of employment: being liked matters more than productivity.
Also looking like you are being productive is a lot more important than really being productive.
Yep! The skill is right up there with not volunteering and never asking for more work. Those things shouldn’t happen because you always are busy.
This is the truth.
If you are wondering why: nobody wants to work with an asshole, no matter how good he is at his job.
You’re gonna spend so much time with your coworkers, like 7-8 hours a day, five days a week, these are some of the people you will spend the most time in your life. You really don’t want to hate their guts.
It’s not always the disliked person’s fault.
Yeah. Dealing with this as we speak. I’m friendly, get the job done, money where my mouth is “work ethic”. I’m not an asshole. But I did get hired for my role over an internal employee. An employee with sway, and has actively used that sway to secretly disparage me and the work I was doing. If he likes you, golden. Promotions, new friends groups, the works. But if he doesn’t, you’re done.
He’s managed to get me fired (next Monday) and yesterday came out gloating on a call with just me to let me know. This truth being verified by a 2 week payslip direct deposit pending on Monday (payday was today). My “crime”? Getting the work done he felt wasn’t “the right work”. He said, “I could have forgiven you taking my job I wanted, but you chose to ignore my project work I wanted done and implement things we don’t need (with list)”. I was hired to do just that, but I guess it wasn’t enough or the right thing. I’ll find out “why” (or how) I’m being fired Monday.
Politics is insane in enterprise. They’ll spend millions on consultants to get work done. One person with power can sabotage another out of pure spite. They have no interest in progress, they just want the status quo where they’re on top. Or an employee who just wants to get the work done without more effort to do it right.
On more positive news, I was already interviewing elsewhere. Final interviews today on one. Next place I’ll just play the game better.
Thanks, I just learned that lesson this tuesday 😥
And since they can’t say “you’re getting fired because nobody likes you” they had to lie about it.
Ouch. Sorry about that. This is frustrating because there’s always been some useless employees every place I’ve worked. Humans are just not very efficient, so really, the work isn’t the reason.