At least 10 times a day, Erika Becker, who works as a sales development manager at a technology company called Verkada, turns to her boss with questions. “Did I handle that correctly?” she asks. “What could I have done better?”
“It’s like if there’s something in my teeth, I want you to tell me,” she said. “Because I want to move up in my career.”
"I literally NEED to be micromanaged every second of my day or else I'll never become a useless parasitic middle manager!!!" :maybe-later-kiddo:
The economists [...] found that remote work enhanced the productivity of senior engineers, but it also reduced the amount of feedback that junior engineers received (in the form of comments on their code), and some of the junior engineers were more likely to quit the firm. The effects of remote work, in terms of declining feedback, were especially pronounced for female engineers.
"Damn, misogyny and elitism are a real problem in our workplace...and this is totally because our wage slaves aren't within the panopticon at all times! It's totally not structural or organizational or economic mode issues at all!" :liberalism:
“It’s what grandparents have been saying for a long time,” Ms. Emanuel, an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, said in an interview this month. “Face-to-face meetings are very different from FaceTime.”
Just literal boomer shit in a supposedly "serious" article. New York Times, more like Poo Pork [Balls] Times
In my experience your boss's list of reasons to silently resent you will grow at about the same rate regardless of how much feedback you try to elicit from them.
I'm doing a seasonal job right now so thank God this doesn't apply to me, but my whole strategy with my other jobs so far has been that mediocre is the true excellent.
Do too poorly? I get fired.
Do too well? I don't get promoted, I become the reliable one (I get a bunch of extra busywork as a reward for a job well done, and then expectations are raised for me even higher as if work is school.)
Capitalism quite literally punishes hard work.
Extracting excess labor value is easier when the labor voluntarily exerts themselves beyond the required needs
-Marx or someone, I don't know