Can you give me one reason why bother? I stopped caring years ago and I certainly quit ki-ling myself over it. This place doesn't care how hard you work, it doesn't move the needle for your career. It's all about nodding along to whatever the higher-ups say. Do the bare minimum, kiss the right behinds, and you're set.
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Yes, it's sad when you get 0% raises for almost 10 years. Then when we got them they were 1.5%. I just started to throttle back eventually doing virtually nothing figuring that I'd be WFR'd but it took them a while. I worked my butt off (no work life balance) for the first 10 years but it wasn't appreciated. There are still a lot of people who work there just waiting for a payout to leave.
I think it's sad when people are fine with only doing the bare minimum.
I think it is sad as well. But you'll understand when you get older.
Sad but true @gladileft. You learn the rules of the game and then play by them.
Yay mediocrity!
I think it's sad when people are fine with only doing the bare minimum.
HPE never rewards the hard worker. They reward the "project worker" and the worker who "complains the most about their workload".
I did almost nothing for the last 15 years I worked there and nobody cared. Just volunteer for things and then just let it drop. No one will put your feet to the fire because they don't want to be tapped to help. Dilbert "Wally Reflector" g00gle it...
Imagine office workers getting paid to do nothing.
Wow, it's almost like AI knows who is essential and who is not. Hint: it's not white collar
Yes, absolutely correct. There are definitely companies out there that reward you for hard, challenging work performed exceptionally well. HPE is not one of those companies. It took me a couple years to figure out why my team was as large as it was for the minimal work that we do. After pitiful "raises" and "bonuses" I realized what the game was: effectively a jobs program for managers' friends and ex-co-workers from previous companies. I've never seen anything like it, but OK, I'll just keep doing the bare minimum. Literally nobody seems to care. I believe they call this their "laid back culture" and it always gets brought up when they're desperate to try to retain people after another lackluster bonus/raise period.