Thread regarding Wells Fargo & Co. layoffs

@OP
Everyone believes they are above average

Got pushed to my limit, told my lead and he said it was my burnout issue and I should talk to my manager. Oh, and also I can’t say I’m feeling anything (burnout, stretched, overwhelmed) because “there is no metric in agile to measure your feelings”,

OP is referring to true high performers...not the perceived high performers who are just the boss favorites. We all know the difference.

@bc the "hardest working" guy in one of my previous roles was chatting up big-chested ladies during the day and soaking up OT doing his work after hours. Dude was convinced I was the laziest coworker he ever had, even though by pure metrics I did the same amount of work as him. I was just efficient, which showed with all the downtime and available bandwidth I had. Our manager even referred to me as his "workhorse" while dude got angrier and angrier that he always saw me sitting at my desk, "surfing the net".

Dude quit from burnout after snaking project work from me, that I then had to clean up because of how poorly he had managed it. "High performers" aren't always the roses they think they are.

@bc
Agree. Document and escalate calmly. Managers are looking for reasons to get to their 20% below meets every review period.

And the inverse of this is that low performers are just allowed to coast by with little to no responsibility, up to and including not even monitoring if they are showing up for work as expected. Those do nothings are the reason life's been made so much more difficult for everyone else.

What I've discovered....isn't that high performers perform high. High performers are the buddies of Mgmt who were recruited by them from JPM, Citi, etc.
No matter what you do, if you aren't one of them....doesn't matter how much you get done. Ever.

Great description 👌 true.