There are only so many hours in a day, and my workload stopped being realistic a long time ago. I'm covering responsibilities that used to belong to multiple people, so some deadlines are inevitably going to slip. I'm not going to pretend otherwise by working myself into the ground. If everything needs to be done faster, the staffing needs to match the workload.
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I don’t know if this is bad across industries
blah blah blah, drink the koolaid. your thoughts need to be replaced by what the rulers will
@ss how about “time to grow” but do this teasing curriculum before you do anything you were interested in. Unbelievable.
There is ‘time to give’ which they make you participate on top of the fkg abusive deadlines! May as well use that to reset your health
Cisco is a global wealth redistribution scheme to remit money from US to India.
AI use is an excuse to stack more work but without increasing pay. Burnout and unpaid overtime is normalized and accepted. People just bootlick shamelessly all the time. If you DARE speak out against it you’re getting the boot next LR. Everything su-ks. At this point Im waiting for the company to go under
Stop crying, get off this board and get to work. Weakness
what do you do that your AI agent cant assist?
THIS ia the real reason there are fewer jobs. We have all beed made to include other peoples responsibilities and those positions were terminated. Not offshoring or visa or immigrants.
I am seeing this across the board. Every few quarters a team goes under reorg and surprise surprise someone gets stuck with those responsibilities.
Within 4 years my job requirements habe changed so much and so many times its not funny anymore
You will soon be replaced by AI.
Start saying no to any ad hoc requests. I used to work at Shitsco too doing work for 3 people. Only do things that are actually relevant enough. Nobody will look after you in that toxic company, you need to do that yourself. You will see that most people in cisco are lazy sh--s who just take advantage of you instead of going thru the right channels. And if you are the right one, make it someone else's problem. You are just a resource on a balance sheet to cisco, the whole people deal thing is a big heap of garbage.
Clearly you're not using AI enough
It reminds me of an all hands ages ago when someone stood up and told John Chambers that he was being scheduled for calls every hour 24 hours a day. Chambers response was it sounded like he should do something different but "I'm still going to maintain unrealistic expectations of you."
The funny thing is in software Cisco has always been a "work harder, not smarter" company with almost no skills in requirements, design or coding which is why they grew through acquisition. The end result is it wasted most of its development budget on bugs which is the least cost effective way to do development, something that has been well known since before there was a Cisco.
It doesn't matter how smart you are. If you are tasked with doing stupid things and you do them your productivity will be poor even if you do stupid things faster than your peers and hiring more people to do more stupid in parallel won't make things better. If you aren't using and growing your skills and you can't effect change it's time to move on before you rot on the vine like too many others have.
Let things slip. Do what you can do within working hours and not more. Do the bare minimum. If it gets you on the LR list so be it you will be better off. No need to be-doverbackwards for a company you’re just a number at.
Exactly. Same happened to me. My VP afterwards split the original team and then moved on. Clown. They also no longer with company. I was glad to go.
Its not about team workload, they are setting you up for failure so that they can LR you next.