Is the one who goes ahead everytime in meeting and explains what the team is doing and progress to boss, gets more recognition despite he actually contributes to the task? Is that how it works or the silent workers who actually contributes to the tasks gets the recognition too.. should I keep silent?

@retoor
Being the opposite of that, I totally agree. Mentioned many times my manager that I wouldn’t farm all the influence bullshit, spam Slack for nothing, shout about achievements, provide solutions for problems that don’t exist or anything of that kind. I instead focus on blazing fast delivery, developer experience and extreme pragmatism. This provided me nothing, but because it’s me, I obviously complained about not getting a pay raise.

@retoor I wore sweatpants to work. it was kind of sly though. they made the same material but looked like Capri / cargo pants. well a dev they hired cuz I asked to be replaced tried to be cheeky. and wore actually sweatpants. when HR talked to him about it he pointed to me. HR liked me (but I was suspicious of her cuz she was always too meddling with me) so just ignored it like he never said anything... I've had people do that to me when I point out hypocrisy but I've never seen someone do that FOR me

they were comfy pants. and I wasn't trying to be disgusting. they were cotton with rubber for a belt. comfy! he did it like an asshole 😩

in this case it isn't so much that she respected my work but because she had this obsession of setting me up with a guy for some reason. she tried with 2 co workers. tried to get my phone once after getting me drunk to text the friends that were pulling me away to go home. I actually was poly with 3 boyfriends at the time and told no one lol

@retoor
I won’t do the farming but I am among the people who dare to rant about not getting paid enough. And I can always switch job anyway. I am not coerceable.

I'm the guy who does his job very well, behind the scenes.

My direct supervisor is pretty much the only one that sees what I do.

I'm !into being the center of attention.

Even w/ the very positive feedback I received from the supervisor, which was presented to the boss, my pay is shitty.

@retoor Right... correction: !shitty, but still underpaid.

Doing what I like is helping, though.

@retoor Having fun at work is kind of a must.

So yeah, I do prefer having a bit less money but have fun at work, than the other way around.

@retoor it's not about being paid for effort. that's stupid. but being paid for results

lots of people can do lots of effort and get nowhere. we call them communists /joke

but lots of people pretend to do effort when they do dumb things, then complain to each other how much effort it was and how they deserve things for it

it's about if you actually did anything. I can spend 3 hours on peeling an orange, it'll be a lot of effort. and still not have an edible orange cuz I decided to draw Jesus on it instead of being efficient. honestly a lot of office work looks like this

but if I was useful I would expect to be treated like I was useful and for you to be useful back to me. I don't want a pizza party, that's literally disgusting and poison, and therefore an insult and self sabotage if I was useful. It is tiring to get this treatment. people don't know how to trade. the world runs on scams it seems

@retoor and if you're coding / focusing on your work it means you're a bad employee

you should really focus on the office drama. otherwise you're not this company's material. you have a bad attitude. not a team player.

nevermind that it took a total of 2 weeks a year to setup all the software and the rest of your time is spent babysitting children. or defrauding the government for research and development paperwork and you're not a goddamned secretary. and useless meetings where people complain about things that are not real. why are you in them? nobody knows. listen to people bitch. do "overtime" to hear people bitch. that's the job now. there is no focus. focus is illegal. focus also opens you up to all those nasty comments. you can't focus on the code, someone's gonna drive by and snipe you in the back while you're not looking. also we have cameras on you 24/7. don't forget to smile