An unspoken epidemic exists in many organizations, especially in large enterprises with a sizeable swath of senior team members. To preserve the peace, this disease is commonly ignored and only talked about in hushed tones. The dirty secret everyone knows is that some leaders and team members
I feel I am teetering on this precipice myself. The pandemic changed everything. Attendance and engagement at work is not good. Also I’m working on engineering myself out of a job… making what I do part of the best practices of the organization instead of a separate work stream. I wish that I could be offered half-time work. Or like you mention a really good assignment. There is some new younger management that is really intelligent and motivated… so I could talk to them… but I’m like well should I just stay under the radar or should I put it out there that I’m looking for more to do? I probably have about two years until I’m going to formally retire from full-time work. It was good to see this truthful article out there! More needs to be said about it. Working remotely really breaks things apart I think. There’s no community. I’ve been forced to go back into the office part time and it feels like it’s making me more depressed because I go in hardly anyone is there… and it reminds me how things were before covid. So different.
I've certainly had experience of watching people 'see out their ticket'. It usually meant more work for everyone else whilst they carried them through their final years though.... Definitely haven't observed it as much in the last 5-10 years, I'm glad to say
I feel I am teetering on this precipice myself. The pandemic changed everything. Attendance and engagement at work is not good. Also I’m working on engineering myself out of a job… making what I do part of the best practices of the organization instead of a separate work stream. I wish that I could be offered half-time work. Or like you mention a really good assignment. There is some new younger management that is really intelligent and motivated… so I could talk to them… but I’m like well should I just stay under the radar or should I put it out there that I’m looking for more to do? I probably have about two years until I’m going to formally retire from full-time work. It was good to see this truthful article out there! More needs to be said about it. Working remotely really breaks things apart I think. There’s no community. I’ve been forced to go back into the office part time and it feels like it’s making me more depressed because I go in hardly anyone is there… and it reminds me how things were before covid. So different.
I've certainly had experience of watching people 'see out their ticket'. It usually meant more work for everyone else whilst they carried them through their final years though.... Definitely haven't observed it as much in the last 5-10 years, I'm glad to say
Far too few ALL CAPS present to be considered a rant.
Always appreciate your input, Patrick.