I wouldn't mind otherwise, to each their own, but it's affecting the project we're working on and in turn affecting me. I can't approach our manager over it because they're good pals, and I don't want to go to HR for obvious reasons. What is left for me to do?
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Don't worry about it. You will be laid off soon. It's obvious based on your description that you are the sacrificial lamb.
Looking at the quality metrics when I worked there most of those with “drive and initiative” caused mass destruction and those of us who knew better were tasked with fixing your mistakes. We also got to fix junk code from poorly managed acquisitions which were needed because Cisco knew it couldn’t do development on its own. Unless the people doing nothing know a lot more than the average developer there you should be having parties to celebrate the fact they aren’t actively making things worse.
As for the person saying Cisco doesn’t care about personal success, they do, but for a set of metrics that have nothing to do with working product. If you check in a line of code then check in its removal three times in a week you’re closing six bugs a week making you a top performer and people have been promoted this way. If they break a feature or the whole build there is no consequence because there are no metrics for these things. Like the bird in the box which has to press a button to get a hit of co----e, the experiment is to see if you’re smart enough to figure out how to be rewarded.
fire her
You still need to go to the manager. It's not up to you or anyone other than them to deal with it and give the feedback. Going around them is also what I consider not showing professional courtesy.
Slack off too then his mgr would notice. At Cisco, you fight fire with fire, t-t-for-tat.
At Cisco, there is no consideration for personal success. You're part of the collective that ensures the senior executives get their bonuses.
good pals wouldn't drop the ball on you like that. Need to establish boundaries and let them know that their slacking off is also affecting you
Welcome to a relationship based corporate culture. Switch to a company that appreciates drive and initiative... Cisco is not that company