There’s a sweet spot in the corporate ladder. People at the bottom get the daily grunt work stuff that’s time consuming and repetitive. People at the top end up with competing responsibilities so they spending most of their time in meetings about other meetings and arguing about planning to make decisions. It’s right in the middle where you blend into the background and can spend half your work day in your underwear playing video games. And that’s exactly where I like to live
That’s middle managers
Correct
Everyone at work hates you.
Yeah dude, I’m a Scrum Master. I’ve seen the memes
Hate me cuz they ain’t me
Until you get too many middle managers vying to climb the corporate ladder. Then it’s all meetings about the meeting in six months, that you’ll need 3x daily meetings to prepare for. After the big meeting you have to do follow-up meetings for the next 6 months until they come up with an idea for another big meeting. All while creating and sending reports about the meetings to other managers and the c-suite. Which then triggers yet more meetings.
Oh and you must have weekly meetings with your subordinates to update them on results of the other meetings. Those meetings can’t be at the same time as the safety meetings (you are doing those weekly right) or the corporate wide meetings that are called at least monthly.
👆
Easy
Quit and become destitute and homeless
Because apparently these days those are the only two options available
Always have been.
Suggest something that would make things better long term, but hurt next quarters numbers. You’ll be back on the bottom of that ladder inside a week.
You could take the corporate parachute over there or the corporate zip line over here!
*golden parachute
Start killing people for fun and use drugs in office
What’s this from. I love it
Scrubs!
Oh, aren’t you supposed to pull it up instead?
It’s hard to feel bad for anyone stuck in a position of relative success. For many of us, there’s simply no way to relate to such an issue.
It’s just financial success for the most part though, and it’s not like “I’ve built generational wealth” financial success, just I can afford to live in this shithole country somewhat comfortably financial success. The amount of asshattery that one has to put up with to get to that point though tends to pile a ton of stress and extra work and general malcontent onto most people.
I would be so glad to be able to live in this shithole country somewhat comfortably. :( I don’t doubt it’s extra stress and extra work being higher up the “ladder”, but it’s hard to imagine it’s more stressful than living paycheck-to-paycheck and having to make decisions about whether it’s more urgent to pay for food or medication this week. One group worries about work decisions 8 hours a day (maybe more, if salaried or on call), the other worries about basic survival 24 hours a day.
