Your typical boss doesn't know what you do or what your skill sets are. They only know if they like you or not. So the more you tell them what they want to hear and stroke their egos, the more likely it is you get to stay. It also helps to constantly remind the boss how much work you do and how stupid everyone else is. Doing chores for them, cutting them good deals on something you're selling, or hanging out with them socially are all bonuses.
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Yes, it is run primarily on the ' don't know - don't care executive thinking ' pattern. No idea if HR has any input but they mo ssd's t likely know even less about employees than management. Yearly evaluations have historically been worth toilet paper, . . .maybe.
Yeah! HR sends out a form and you have to evaluate the people on it. Personally I favored the hard workers who mind their own business because it makes my life easier, and scored the lazy people, bathroom seat warmers, and cell phone addicts low so that HR could do the dirty work and get rid of them for me.
Start at the bottom and make their way up - bypassing of course members of the buddy buddy system
I resent that remark. Hey, I'm moving into your old office. Can I keep your plants?
In-laws, uncles, brothers, fathers and sons get a pass as to prevent too much disruptions within the same family.
Seen this for decades.
Nailed it.
Considering the large percentage of worthless people that work there and the lack of management's ability to know the difference between the dolts and the stars, it is done along protect trait lines. So you see rough equality in age, national origin, male (because females make diversity so most get a pass) etc so they can augment their executive compensation without being sued for discrimination. Certain orgs that primarily hire people conforming to one particular trait (like being of the same national origin of the org leader) dont get hit as hard. This is why when you walk in the day after layoffs and the one dude that is as useless as a wart on your backside is just truckin' along like nothing happened after every layoff.