Why Lazy Gets Hired and Promoted
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- Опубликовано: 1 авг 2024
- Why Lazy Gets Hired and Promoted // Some people seem to effortlessly climb the career ladder while others remain stuck in the same spot. The idea of ‘working hard’ is deeply ingrained in our work culture. But in the real world, it’s not just the hours you put in that count.
There’s a hidden strategy to being seen, recognized, and rewarded in the workplace. It’s about understanding the art of ‘performative work’ and how being ‘lazy’ (in the right way) can actually be a strategic move in your career. This involves knowing how to navigate the intricacies of organization work culture and mastering effective communication in the workplace. Not just toiling away at your desk working on difficult tasks.
This video is a goldmine for white-collar job seekers and professionals. You’ll learn the secrets behind getting promotions and landing your dream job, which surprisingly doesn’t always correlate with being the hardest worker. You’ll learn strategies for making your achievements more visible, and ensuring that your efforts don’t go unnoticed.
Watch the full video for actionable tips, empowering advice, and a fresh perspective on what it really takes to get hired and promoted. Remember, it’s not always about working harder… sometimes, it’s about working smarter and showing your value in ways that leadership recognizes. So watch the full video now and start reshaping your career path today!
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One other point… it is not enough for your manager to know your accomplishments. Make sure your manager’s manager knows who you are and the value you create for the company/org. As painful as it sounds to some, your #1 job is to advertise yourself to the senior leadership team.
🎯 This! ...I came into a crucial role that half the team left during the pandemic. I stayed & never in entire career worked so hard. ....I don't get a raise, nor the earned promotion in those 3 long years. All I received, was true burnout. I hope to never be even close to that situation again. 🙏🦋 And the kicker, truly the bosses boss didn't know anything about my hard work.
Thank you for the video! I hate to say it though, but this is probably a big reason why more employees are just deciding to go job shopping after a year or two instead of spending the needless time broadcasting their workload or grooming a company image 24/7. It’s easier to spend six months looking for the next position than a year or two hoping an opportunity opens up above you.
I have a coworker who has straight up said he plans on getting promoted just for having an outgoing personality and just wants to milk a good salary without having to work. If he gets promoted then I am absolutely leaving.
I call it "failing upwards". I've seen people fail and destroy departments then get promoted to a C level position.
Unfortunately this is the norm not the exception anymore.
This info is gold! It took me many painful years to figure this out on my own. Those of you who are early in their career, please pay attention. It will save you years of frustration.
Sometimes it is not how hard you work but it's how you play company politics
Bingo!!! Back in the days you’d get promoted for the long hours and hard work you gave the company nowadays you’re punished and demoted while slackers are promoted and praised. Like we’re living in the bizarro world
I disagree! Not sometimes, but almost allll the time 🥲
Work smart, drive smart; let the brain chill, less stress to the heart.
It really sucks when your job is actually important, your workload is too heavy to slack off and spend more time socializing, and managers do not understand your job at all, so they refuse to do anything about your workload and think you're just being lazy and will keep note of the fact that you've complained. Meanwhile, certain individuals win the lottery when they barely do any work and manage to get promoted to a position where they... barely do any work. Execs are the worst decision makers.
Thats on you for working too hard. If you work harder to get more done, bosses will get raises for job well done for squeezing more work from you. If you slowed down and only did a certain level, bosses will realize more work needs to be done.
@@asadb1990 There's no such thing as "slowing down" in a deadline-oriented job in a cutthroat industry that churns and burns through its employees. LOL. Maybe you're imagining some typical office job, but the entertainment industry is not so kind to complainers or anyone who speaks up. Periods of crunch are a norm, and work distribution is horribly uneven.
I'm sure other industries have similar issues. But sure, blame the worker instead of the crappy boss who clearly does not pay attention to their employees or the work environment. It's not like part of their job requirement is being a great communicator, managing people, and boosting morale. /s 🙄
99% of these people can't even proofread their written communication for basic spelling, but they demand promotions... 🙄
"It's the work you can see!" Amazing. I will never forget that! Thank you for sharing!
I've tried to play the corporate game. Always did more than I needed to. Most managers and Leads loved that but most of my co-workers didn't. I tried to socialize with people. Make friends not enemies. Unfortunately, despite my best efforts people in upper management would get mixed ideas about me cause of the split between co-workers and leadership. At one company not much came of it except that they won't rehire me. At my last job a board member who I never met didn't like my opinion and despite what everyone else said, he chose to fire me. Since he held the majority votes on the board, more than half, whatever he said, goes. So despite talking about a promotion one day, the next I was fired. So you can have a great image but that doesn't mean you'll get promoted or even keep a job. Now I'm six months in to job hunting and I'm experiencing constant rejections despite being qualified and interviewing well, or so I've been told. It's pretty rough.
I had no idea about this! I AM the one who tidies up the kitchen, plans team-building events and helps new employees feel welcome. Oof
You are crucial to the team, but do you get rewarded for it?
People that are nice get screwed in companies. I found that out the hard way.
Feeling so frustrated. I keep having interviews in which the interviewer asks no substantive questions, instead focusing on what seem like "gotchya" questions. Then they hire someone with much worse qualifications. What is going on??!?
I am in an interview process with a company. In my research I saw a video of people being rewarded. One of the rewards was to recognize the person who facilitates community in the office and tries to make everyone feel included. So this company apparently does value the citizenship, service, thankless stuff. I understand that I shouldn't expect it to be common though.
Yes, yes, yes! I vouch for everything presented in this video! This information is valuable as gold. Learn about P.I.E. (Performance, Image, Exposure). To get promoted, spend more time selling your work, touting your efforts, and signaling every energy you put toward tasks that lead to your outcome. It is all about perception. Play the game cleverly and you will find amazing success. Work less, socialize more. You will be happier and have less stress. This video should have hundreds of thousands of hits!!! Thank you so much. I wish I was taught this knowledge much younger in my career. It would have likely moved me up the ranks so much faster and higher!
If you are going to pursue this strategy, you need to do it right from the start, before you get a reputation for being a hard worker. Because once you've established yourself as being responsible and hard working, you will not be allowed to lower your standards. This is not just my opinion. I actually had a college professor say that in one of my classes. She said, now here is something about the work world that nobody will tell you because they are not being honest. You will not be rewarded for standing above the crowd. You will be punished. Why? Because employers know they can keep you in the same position and pay while getting maximum worth for you. And if you leave and they have to hire two people to replace you, they still win because it will cost them less to pay those two people than to pay you what you really are worth. So don't go above and beyond. Stick to the average right from the start.
I love what you said.
The big issue is when u take the high visibility project do all the work and then ur manager takes all the credit in front of the C Suit or worse yet gives credit to a coworker or their buddy.
I had a paper in the National Weather Service and the number 2 person in charge wanted me to rewrite it. I knew exactly what it was about. He would take credit or make it look like he was instrumental in that achievement. What did I do? I never rewrote it. Screw him. He still got the promotion later on.
@@RichardLeo-mf3zb as Federal Employee I see this ALL the time!
While this is more or less universal, I really think it depends on the kind of work that is being done. I have noticed that 99% of workplace advice deals with office situations. After spending most of my life in cubicle-land I ended up running an injection molding press in a factory. Let me tell you, factory culture is a LOT different than office culture. I honestly think that you are more likely to be rewarded for hard work if you are in a factory. Certainly I felt far more valued in my six years of factory work than I was in 37 years of working in a cubicle. I was given far more responsibilities right off the bat. Yes, there are slackers, but they tend to get weeded out. Also, that cushy office job that you probably went into massive debt to pay for your college education--I hate to say it, but it has a sell-by date. You may find yourself, as I did, out on the streets and unable to find a comparable position because you are nearing retirement age. That's how I wound up running a plastics press. Because they don't practice age discrimination in those places. As long as you can physically do the work, they will keep you on. When I retired at 65 my boss was not happy to see me go and told me, any time you want to come back, you can. I hear he still is asking about me. So, just saying.
I am in Madeline's SJS program. As part of the program I am doing informational interviews to discover my next career (and career step), what you wrote above is exactly what I am discovering through these interviews. I will transition from corporate contract management to welding and metal fabrication. Every leader is already chomping at the bit to get me on their team. And I haven't even held a torch yet. My background and degree make me valuable because it demonstrates work ethic and flexibility to roll with changes and continue to become a master of my skill.
Agreed 👍
This advice held up during times that where easy. Those times are gone, people who produce real value who are critical to a companies success will succeed. Its getting too tough for companies to hold on to non valuable employees since the free money is getting drained from the system.
You honestly think the idiots promoted for their personality are going to be able to tell who can actually do the work properly?
i always ensure whatever job i’m in sets me up for my next role
Thank you for these videos. It can be so confusing and upsetting to work so hard and improve workflow just to watch others get way ahead of me
So upsetting, I feel ya😢
Get another job. Politics is how that other person got it
It's not who or what you know, it's who you blow.
It's especially rough when you have been taught all your life that hard work, punctuality, cleanliness and not to moan will get you far. In today's society, that is not true. You have to sell yourself, not be ambitious. Ambition will only get you into a job when all eyes are on you in the beginning, not grow inside of a large company, when everyone who should care, has too much to do themselves to even notice you. Years of lazy people getting respected, treated well and get payed more have taught me this. As long as the hard workers suck it up and get the job done, all is fine. In Germany we have a saying "Jeder ist seines Glückes Schmied" (Man forges his own destiny) and through years of experience; That is no true. There are too many people in your way ready to ruin your mood, day or life for their benefit or the benefit of someone he knows. It's a free for all with nepotism. Times have changed and so should you. Like the saying goes "Move With the Times, or the Times Will Move Without You".
And then when the company flounders, the bosses wonder why.
Yep, I not only did not get promoted, but I also lost my full-time status and benefits. They still want me to do all the same work, because it is critical to the company.
Time to go. They are flagrantly taking advantage of you!
I was at a company from 2008-15 I put in everything extra shirts worked extra hours never hardly had a sick day so in 2015 the managers position came up I was shot down like an enemy rocket and then asked ohh but you’d be happy to train the new manager won’t you. I told him the district officials what I had thought of them and their company I handed in my resignation the very next day. Best decision of my life yet wasted almost seven years of my life for shit pay and abuse to get nowhere.
Love the vibe here - inspiring!
I really love this video especially for younger workers. However, as an experienced person who has tried EVERYTHING, I think we need to look at the dysfunctions of organizations. Since the recession, most Gen X believe having a job is good enough. I haven't seen anyone promoted since I started working in the '00s. Also, I've seen some of the most toxic situations where HR is aware of them but their hands are tied to. I think we need to be very aware of 'Disney-fying' the workplace when it's truly only a place to work. I think a more helpful video might be on how people get promoted by making their boss feel comfortable, doing the easy jobs or staying out of the line of fire. Or maybe something on how to hold organizations to account or which organizations are the healthy ones that people should want to work at. Anyway, my $.02, thank you for all you do!!!
Hi Madeline,
Thank you for this video made my day.
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I worked once in a telecommunications center for home broadband and mobile phone services I worked as a tech assistant I was self taught as when I was hired it was here’s the bathroom here’s the break room here’s your desk and phone see you later don’t ask any supervisors for help they were too busy watching RUclips videos giggling away like school girls to help. I was helping an coaching others in the job yet they’d get promoted over staff like myself whom been there much longer and plus they were never brought up on their major mistakes and errors they did yet staff like myself were ridiculed for the smallest most trivial matter possible.
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Sad this doesn’t work in my field because you get paid by production and stops you do. My boss told me this yr i was too valuable to apply for service manager position and why would i want a paycut for more work. Sadly he right cause i made most money 3 yr straight and getting paid more then my own branch manager
The manager likes their personality more.
As much as making ur hard work known is annoying it is important bc if u never tell them how will you know
Watching her videos got me two offers the same week. I have to say she’s better than all these mofo’s here on RUclips. Respectfully speaking of course lol.
Oh wow, which videos?
09:47 watched the video. Very insightful .
Oh shit that’s all I had to do to keep ppl out my office !!!!
This was very informative, thanks! I will say, though I never heard of organizational citicizenship behavior, I experienced that same outcome in the video.
I wasn't the one doing the organizational citizenship behavior and only been at my company for almost two years, but another employee having been there for twenty years did do that behavior. Long story short, I had showed my boss how I track daily orders using pivot tables and a dashboard that I had made, providing analytics to the team's work. Later on, the one who was volunteering and doing all the coworker get togethers got laid-off, and I got promoted. It was surreal to me since it was my first corporate job.
This is the perfect example.
Im on my way to applying to luxury retail. I wonder how easily and soon people will get promoted to main office?
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Most people aren't lazy. But the overachievers work too much and make regular workers look lazy
So what can you do if you are in a hierarchical organisation where they restrain your communications to the right people (C level or Head of departments) so you never get a chance to present your work and show off your capabilities?
Either accept the situation or try to find another job.
I mean, I'm lazy and I never got promoted. I guess specific people
It’s true
So, if we’re always doing performative work for our managers, are our managers really worth their salt? Or needed in the chain?
They are also doing performative work for their boss. So it’s best to do performative work that makes both you and your manager look good.
I'm not gonna waste time watching this.
All you need to know is that if you're too good at your current role, you won't get promoted. You're too valuable as a individual contributor who gets treated like a manager without any of the authority, leverage, or pay.
Why did you even bother commenting?
So, what the video doesn’t tell you is that if your job function is a profit center, you may not need to suck up to your boss. But if your job function is a cost center, an overhead, you better work your ass off.
This is good for your own business. But getting tired of hearing all about how we can spend our finite lives make someone else rich. Visibly promoted or not. Do your own thing. Start your own business
Report these kind of slackers. No such thing you are fooling somebody else pretending you are working. There is a special way to report.
fix the lipstick