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"If you want to get promoted, just start acting like someone at the next level up. Eventually they'll realize you're not being paid enough and will promote you.
by JSno 12y ago
"If you want to get promoted, just start acting like someone at the next level up. Eventually they'll realize you're not being paid enough and will promote you."
--This sounds really bad. Like a slave trying to move more bricks to show slave-owner that he is not being paid enough.
- kbenson 12y agoWhen this was explained to me by a friend that works there recently, my immediate thought was "Oh. I guess that takes care of the Peter Principle." What incentive does a company have to move you from a position you are competent and useful in to a potion you are incompetent and useless in?
- sliverstorm 12y agoCan you think of a better argument to give your boss for why you should be promoted than, "I am already doing the work of one grade above me"?
- patio11 12y ago"I am already doing the work of one grade above me... at Facebook." I'm joking, but not by much.
- nostrademons 12y agoFor a while, this was a really good way to become a millionaire. Then Facebook IPO'd and we had to settle for "I'm already doing Larry's job...for a startup."
- ChuckMcM 12y ago"I [think] I am already doing the work of one grade above me... at Facebook." Is more often the case. It's interesting to see folks who act on that thought and find out they were mistaken. A manager of mine once quipped "The grass is always greener somewhere else, but sometimes that is because it's astroturf."
- groby_b 12y agoGiven the pay rate at any established company in the valley, I don't think being an underpaid "slave" is a concern.
- VLM 12y agoComes into social status and treatment. Open plan offices, micromanagement, pooled paid time off, things like that. Google for the term velvet handcuffs or golden handcuffs.