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0 pointsmassysett4y ago0 comments

Exactly. As a supervisor, of course I give more work to my staff who work faster. This means they get more opportunities to learn, more exposure to good projects, more development, and more opportunities for promotion (if they want that.)

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spaetzleesser4y ago· 3 in thread

Only if you have good projects , development and promotion opportunities to give to them . Often it’s just more work of the same kind.

massysettOP4y ago

Yes, only a fraction of the work is “good” work in that sense. The fast workers get many more opportunities to get it. It’s like the fast worker buying ten lottery tickets and the slow worker buying one. She who buys ten tickets has ten times the chance of winning, even if she buys nine losers.

spaetzleesser4y ago

That’s not how it works in the companies I have seen. The people who get the “good” work have good connections with management and know about the “good” projects before anyone else. Fast workers just get more work of the same kind if they don’t know about the interesting projects.

I often feel being too good at the daily grunt work makes you too important for that and management wants you to stay there.

fijiaarone4y ago

So you're looking at needing to be a 100,000,000 X programmer do have a decent shot at winning that lottery.

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