Most people think that if they kiss the bosses butt, the boss
will like them and they will have a secure job with good
advancement. Wrong!
To a business organization, an employee is just a tool, like a
mop or shovel. When the tool gets old or is no longer needed,
it's out the door without a flinch. If you kiss the bosses butt,
they may smile at you and talk nice to you, but in reality
they're thinking you're weak and pitiful. They will not hesitate
to give you the crap assignments and use you as a fall guy for
their mistakes.
You can have a secure job with good advancement - and keep your
self-respect if you follow the rules below.
- In business organizations, people gather into "clicks". A
click is a group of employees organized for the purpose of
covering each others butt. This allows each member of a click to
pass the blame for their mistakes onto the other click. In the
end, one click successfully destroys the chances for advancement
of the members of the other click. (Or gets the other click
tossed out of the company entirely).
Never join a click. Always claim to be a devoted subject of
managers so high in the organization that most of the employees
don't have access to them. Always claim to be dedicated to
"what's best for the company". Avoid taking sides in any issue
that the clicks are doing battle over. By taking a side, you
will be joining a click.
There is no sure way to tell which click will win in the end.
The click that seems to be winning today could get caught in a
big screw-up tomorrow, and be out the door. Never join a click.
- Never associate with co-workers or your boss outside of work.
If you associate with a co-worker outside of work, you will be
joining that co-workers click by default. If you associate with
your boss outside of work, in order to avoid accusations of
favoritism, your boss will be forced to give you crap
assignments. Keep your work associations and your after work
relationships completely separate.
- Never bad-mouth a co-worker or a boss. No matter how private
you think a conversation is, it WILL get out. And when it does -
you will have joined a click. The fact is, you don't need to
bad-mouth a co-worker or a boss. Although it may not seem like
it, everybody already knows who the big screw-ups in the company
are.
- Always bad-mouth everybody and everything outside the company.
Bad-mouth suppliers. Bad-mouth contractors. Bad-mouth
consultants. Bad-mouth the government. Bad-mouth everything
outside the company. That's right - the company's problems are
not caused by stupid lazy employees and managers. All the
company's problems are caused by things outside the company.
=> Get ahead by taking the initiative and volunteering for
assignments nobody else wants - Wrong!
- In every company there are certain assignments that do not
lead to advancement. The crap assignments. They are boring with
low visibility or little chance of success. Then there are the
other assignments that are exciting, involve gaining more
skills, have high visibility and a good chance of success. These
are the "glory" assignments.
They say "the cat that meows gets the milk". Always keep
pestering your boss to give you the glory assignments. Always
whine and complain when you get a crap assignment. If you get a
crap assignment, lay a guilt complex on your boss. Make it clear
that they now owe you a glory assignment.
=> "The early bird gets the worm". True - but the night hawk
eats venison.
- You will never get credit for arriving at work before everyone
else - because they didn't see when you arrived. Always arrive
at work late and then leave late. If you are still working when
the other employee leaves, it makes them appear to be making
less effort than you - even though they may have put in the
same, or more hours than you did.
Do not arrive early AND leave late. That will cause you to get
tired, burned out, and not perform at peak efficiency.
- Every manager is indebted to their boss for every dollar in
their department's budget. This means they must keep their
department's salaries as low as possible. In your performance
review, your boss is looking for every "bullet" they can use to
"shoot down" your raise.
Keep a journal of every task that you complete successfully and
every accomplishment that you achieve. In your performance
review, your boss can be very forgetful. You need to come to the
review with a few bullets of your own.
- A group of employees is like a pack of wolves. Each employee
jockeying for a more dominant position. To achieve domination
over a fellow employee they have to prove they are more skilled
than the other employee.
Schedule time every day to read and study material related to
your profession and the business that your company is in.
Continuously increase your skill level. This does not require
putting in more hours at work or taking time at home. You can
usually block out from 30 minutes to 2 hours during the workday
for skill enhancement.
If you have a high skill level, you don't need to join a click
to cover your mistakes. When you make a mistake, you will have
enough value to the company to be able to admit to the mistake
without affecting your status in the company.
When you make a mistake say this; "I made a mistake and if the
company doesn't like the way I work, they can hire who-ever is
second best". This is a way of telling the company that even
though you are human and make mistakes, you are still a highly
skilled employee and a valuable asset to the company.
You CAN have a secure job with good advancement even if you have
too much self-respect to kiss butt. When you follow the rules
above, your bosses may not smile at you, but they will be
handing you a big paycheck!
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