"If I work hard enough my boss will notice"
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this post was submitted on 04 Mar 2026
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Reminds me of the book I read to my kid.
Literally about the farm animals kicking the lazy farmer out that makes the duck do all the work. Highly recommendes if you have a little kid.
Banger quote, has an air of antiquity about it
Instead, the ass does
Depends on what is defined as "success". If it's somewhere within "owning as much wealth as possible", then yeah.
Unfair comparison
I wouldn't want the hardest worker to be the automatic promotion. We've all worked with someone who means well, works hard but is dumb as a brick. God help us if they get promoted.
Raise > promotion
I can't manage people, don't want to manage people, taking me out of an engineering/development position to be a manager would literally be hell on Earth for me and probably anyone under me. Keep me at the same position doing the same thing and just pay me more the better I get at it. But that's not how pretty much any Western company works, worse, they look at your promotion record when deciding who to lay off, not your actual work record, and staying in the same position for too long automatically labels you as a failure.