Honestly, I did a lot of extra work because I didn’t want to lose my job. I thought I would lose my job quickly if I didn't do everything they told me.
Now, however, I see that the situation is reversed. It seems that those who do not want to do extra work are even more valued here?
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Most days, I’m doing just enough to keep me from getting fired. Frederick Taylor be d@mned. Watch me NOT work!
Be careful. The people closest to your manager often do nothing. That doesn’t mean that you can do nothing. Those people are doing something else for the manager, usually lying for them and playing dirty tricks on people for the manager. The manager gets someone else to do the real work and then gives his/her followers credit for that work. At Oracle you are either a do-nothing follower of the management or you are the one doing work they can take credit for. There is nothing else.
Sometimes you just have to let it break. If you don't you will just keep getting buried until you are the one that breaks.
Tell your boss to do it. My last two managers there were so useless they couldn’t even get hired away. One was the size of an elephant and the other was incompetent AF. He didn’t even know any of the software. He got hired by our old VP all hopped up on Botox.
What comes around, goes around. Company has money for acquisitions but not raises. I make time for myself, hit my metrics and no more. Easy money. I spend my time learning new skills.
This is a typical ploy, and not just at oracle. Let your voicemail box fill up, don't respond to email and don't answer the phone except for the calls you want to take. Tell everyone you talk to that you are completely busied out. Add lots of fluff on reports to management about what you are up to. Basic corporate tactics, really.