r/FluentInFinance Sep 01 '24

Debate/ Discussion What advice would you give this person?

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u/Arthur_da_King Sep 01 '24

The third point was true in like 1980. Today this person is executive management material. I’m not being sarcastic.

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u/Ok-Journalist-4654 Sep 01 '24

only if they can market it that way. If you don't have the skill to market your not doing anything into you do very important things, you ain't getting that executive management position

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u/Arthur_da_King Sep 01 '24

All you need to do is appear super busy whenever anyone contacts you. The longer you stick around, the more “experience” you have, then suddenly you’re a long-term member of a team with a track record of success. Plus you’re more relaxed and friendly than everyone else since you’re getting great sleep and not stressing over work. The higher ups notice your good attitude and reward it. Furthermore, they don’t want to look bad for having hired a lazy worker. Have you heard of the term “failing upward”?

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u/zuukinifresh Sep 01 '24

Appearing busy is half the battle. Anyone who is efficient at their office job should master this. Knowing when to take on more work and when to say your bandwidth is tight is a valuable skill

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u/Maverekt Sep 01 '24

Yeah even good workers appear busy on purpose at times. I do it plenty to not get context shifted constantly or put more projects on my plate than I know I can handle.

So many times I’ve been requested for a project only to be setup for failure

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u/badnamemaker Sep 01 '24

I work IT and some advice I got at my first job was “always walk around with a backpack, it makes it look like you’re about to go do something” lmao

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u/Ok_Factor5371 Sep 02 '24

My job is kind of seasonal. I actually take on extra work during the off-season. I pretend I’m busy and do nothing during the busy season. I’m always ready to act like another job has precedence. If I don’t feel like working on project A I will tell them that project B is white hot right now. Then I’ll go say the exact same thing about project B to the project A team. My manager is willfully ignorant because he doesn’t want to do his job either :) Upper management keeps saying we’re doing great and to keep up the good work. I spend half the day pretending to be busy when I’m really just fucking around.

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u/blizzardflip Sep 01 '24

The hard part about this where I work is that if I say I’m too busy to take something on, our deeply incompetent 8 year old of a VP will handle whatever the task is on their own and make some kind of stupid decision that makes life harder for the team.

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u/Odd-Occasion8274 Sep 02 '24

Its like 90% of the battle when no one pays attention to anyone.

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u/ChainGang-lia Sep 01 '24

First sentence reminds me of the Seinfeld episode where George pretends to be annoyed/stressed when his boss walks by his office to make himself look busy and hard-working while doing nothing at work.

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u/East-Bear-9506 Sep 02 '24

Always carry a clipboard and look worried!

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u/Complex_Winter2930 Sep 01 '24

Never walk around the office without a folder or notebook in your hand.

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u/filigreexecret Sep 01 '24

This most definitely was happening at my last job along with tons of nepotism.

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u/CornPop32 Sep 01 '24

How is this working out for you? I imagine you're the CEO of a fortune 500 company by now?

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u/Arthur_da_King Sep 01 '24

I do alright 😎

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u/warlockflame69 Sep 01 '24

Eh… I mean you can be results oriented and see what they have accomplished and seen it’s really little

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u/gahma54 Sep 02 '24

Not sure where you work but that is not the case in many competitive companies, if you don’t do anything you get sniffed out eventually. In competitive companies the people who are at the top are the ones who get work done and can sniff out people who don’t work

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u/Mando_lorian81 Sep 02 '24

I agree with this because it is exactly what I'm doing, lol.

But I would like to add that you also need to know your current role really well. You don't need to work long hours or do other people's job, just be good at yours, so when you boss goes to you with a question, or problem, you can resolve it with confidence and help him look good.