Cubicle Confessions

Discussions

• Does calling out your manager actually make you the hero you think you are?

  I have seen versions of this often enough that I cringe when I see yet another junior doing it. A manager asks us to do something irritating. One of the engineers, often junior, rebels with some ranting, some joke, some slack message... He calls out the bullshit and everyone who saw it knows exactly what they think of the boss in question. However, they don't end up becoming the heroes, the rebels they thought. They get silence, they get careful deliberate, cold silence.

• Do most jobs converge into sales once you're senior enough?

  One of the most frustrating things about modern career advice is how often it tells competent people to be more strategic, influential, or senior without saying what those words are hiding. A lot of the time, what they are hiding is sales.