Not giving it your all at work for whatever reason you might use to justify it to yourself and those around you only means that you're lazy and you found a nice excuse to indulge in your laziness. Something is wrong with the world in which working hard is considered problematic.
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Something is wrong with the world in which working hard is considered problematic.
Something is wrong with the world in not paying a living wage and expecting people to take abuse. Obviously, I'm not talking about Cisco with that statement, but that's capitalism and Cisco is all about Capitalism.
I will do a day's work for a day's pay at Cisco. The days of being "salaried" and expected to go above and beyond w/o being paid for that extra effort and time went right out the door when Cisco started performing annual LRs. Apparently I'm too expensive so they need to replace me with a couple of junior, less expensive workers. Funny thing is, they find they keep needing my experience and greater skills, so they keep bringing me back to fix the stuff the young kids can't handle and I get laid off again and replaced with a couple of junior people. Wash, rinse and repeat. And every time I come back, I come back at a higher pay, which equates to a bigger severance package, and I'm finding work almost immediately meaning I'm pocketing 18+ months of pay from Cisco for work I didn't have to do. :-)
You don't have to knock yourself out to work hard if you work smart.
Does this LRaaS run on Cisco Cloud or AWS?
You know Cisco has no cloud. We lost that race. It's on AWS, of course!
A good mathematician is a lazy mathematician
You work hard while a handful of us work smart. Meaning automate repetitive processes, use reusable templates, work around heavy processes, focus on high visibility projects first and what not. But please be my guest and spend 16 hours a day for a company that will not hesitate one second to lay you off when your time has come. And your time will come. And you won't be receiving a medal for all the personal time you sacrificed.
Does this LRaaS run on Cisco Cloud or AWS?
Cisco is not a performance based company. Why should people give 100%? Your hard work is just making the VPs, SVPs, and ELT bigger bonuses. It doesn't trickle down to employees.
My VP had to hire a full-time employee to write emails for her, she has zero technical skills and delegates all work to others. That's lazy. Especially when you make over $700,000/year
Leaders who consider engineers are human and has personal life will be kick out sooner or later. The one who survived have to be slave drive to save their own job.
Moving money around that I am already making does not motivate me to work harder.
Not thinking straight or enough about what you are saying (your case) is also mental laziness.
The employer always gets what it pays for. Not paying enough, playing with your bonus or salary gets you exactly that
Thanks Elon, Chuck agrees.
Wow Thank you Op for awakening us.
Now I will work very very hard !
Me no lazy worker