Either I'm doing something very wrong or I'm just not among the lucky ones who can say that Cisco is easy pay. Really, for some of you it's easy pay here? How many of you are there? I've never been more overworked anywhere than here.
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@9iws+1isjeKTf Sounds like you have been working with some so-called Business Solutions Architects at Cisco. All talk, no material
Much of management at Cisco is too d-mb actually to know who their top performers are on their team, so they rely on who "looks like" they're performing. Attend all meetings with your managers, know how to BS and sound enthusiastic in those meetings, be proactive in taking up BS initiatives and make useless powerpoints about these that go nowhere, take credit for every piece of work you remotely touched. Be loud and shameless in taking credit for coworkers work. Insert yourself between your manager and others on your team. "Lead" by putting other people in your team down. Just some tips I've seen in action...
I used to include my name in the footer of all my slides for that reason.
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I used to include my name in the footer of all my slides for that reason.
Ensure that wherever your work product exists your name is there. If someone removes it intentionally, so be it, you can’t stop them. But at least then they know they’re being dishonest and they have to hide the change from you.
I quiet quit and nobody is bothering me, for the past 6 years.
Can vouch for point 5. This also applies to any projects you champion. Your boss, VP, and senior engineers will take credit for their own gain while you get nothing.
Shameless promote your own stuff so that it’s impossible for someone else to take credit.
The key is:
- Offload work to contractors.
- Create well crafted powerpoints from other people's work.
- Any task that requires heavy ad-hoc processing (Excel work; data analysis), make sure those tasks are handled by contractors.
- Understand completely the funding cycle for your immediate organization.
- Do not let others take credit for your presentation material.
I mean, it’s you’re trying, it’s gonna feel like work. Secret is to offload your work as you can. Letting initiatives go longer and longer between progress meetings. Miss deadlines by citing technical complexity but insist you’re working in it. Take up new initiatives you know are going to be easy but make them sound difficult when talking to management. Cancel meetings because “key” personnel are on PTO or had a conflict.
Just gota strategize your path to an easy paycheck. If you do this really well, you can probably hold multiple jobs.
You can do this! I believe in you!