Work questions?

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  1. have you ever had to take your performance down notches to ‘fit in?’
  2. have you ever had to cover up a ‘leads’ major screw-up?
  3. how do you not roll over a ‘lead’ just by virtue of doing your job?
  4. have you ever had a job where you were operating at about 5% throttle while getting all of your work done plus others?
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  1. have you ever had to take your performance down notches to ‘fit in?’
  2. have you ever had to cover up a ‘leads’ major screw-up?
  3. how do you not roll over a ‘lead’ just by virtue of doing your job?
  4. have you ever had a job where you were operating at about 5% throttle while getting all of your work done plus others?
  1. No.
  2. No.
  3. I have done so (rolled past people who were more senior to me).
  4. Yes, at times while I was in the Army. No in the civilian world.
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  1. have you ever had to take your performance down notches to ‘fit in?’
  2. have you ever had to cover up a ‘leads’ major screw-up?
  3. how do you not roll over a ‘lead’ just by virtue of doing your job?
  4. have you ever had a job where you were operating at about 5% throttle while getting all of your work done plus others?
  1. No
  2. Huh, uh, no
  3. Say what! What industry does this even relate to? Should I still down to laser focus?
  4. What? Why do industri slaves insist on coming up with this bullshit jargon. Just say whatever it is you’re trying to belch out. Seriously.
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Ok, I should have never taken a government engineering job after 26 years in private industry and at 52 years old. No matter how secure!

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Willis say “what?”
seriously I don’t understand your point.

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You can only go as fast as the machine around you. Find other ways to add value.

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Sounds like a government job.

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  1. have you ever had to take your performance down notches to ‘fit in?’
  2. have you ever had to cover up a ‘leads’ major screw-up?
  3. how do you not roll over a ‘lead’ just by virtue of doing your job?
  4. have you ever had a job where you were operating at about 5% throttle while getting all of your work done plus others?
  1. No
  2. No
  3. Keep the lead informed, so they know how what you’re doing impacts the bigger picture and them specifically. That’s usually a good way to influence their behavior.
  4. Yes. Well, maybe 25%. Not government work either.
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  1. No
  2. No
  3. No
  4. First high school job. Just doing what I was told to do made me a much better worker then anyone else in the store…I my jaw dropped when my boss told me two weeks into the job I was making the guys who were working there for years look bad. I was literally just doing what I was told to do.
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“I infer that the OP thinks he is a particularly amazing employee who does not feel challenged at work.”

Pretty much, with the correction. Doesn’t really matter though, I guess.

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  1. have you ever had to take your performance down notches to ‘fit in?’

  2. have you ever had to cover up a ‘leads’ major screw-up?

  3. how do you not roll over a ‘lead’ just by virtue of doing your job?

  4. have you ever had a job where you were operating at about 5% throttle while getting all of your work done plus others?

  5. Doing that now. After years of very high performance and not getting compensated (i.e., pay grade not reflective of my output), I’m “fitting in” to my grade by dumping work.

  6. No

  7. Often - nature of the job

  8. Often

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  1. not really
  2. I work on a team, either we get the work done or we don’t it isn’t one person.
  3. I don’t do the same work as him no issue
  4. No that takes about 75% of my effort which is right about the amount of effort I want to put in.

I think you really need to ask your self what you want, you can let the lead look like and idiot and out preform everyone and get the promotion if you are still going for that, from what I have seen this is a little differtent in Government than industry but same shit, or if this is just banking time to retierment and pention, coast take the shit put in the minimal effort and cash out. You just need to decide so your head is in the right space, right now it sounds like you are in 2 places wanting to go 100% and not advance pick one.

Ben

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Go back and proof your work. Needs a few edits. Yikes!!

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  1. have you ever had to take your performance down notches to ‘fit in?’

  2. have you ever had to cover up a ‘leads’ major screw-up?

  3. how do you not roll over a ‘lead’ just by virtue of doing your job?

  4. have you ever had a job where you were operating at about 5% throttle while getting all of your work done plus others?

  5. No.

  6. Not really. Once as an associate I was talking to a client, gave some legal advice, and the client questioned me because she had been told the opposite by one of the firm’s partners. The partner was wrong, but I didn’t feel comfortable coming straight out with that to the client, so I hedged and tried to while the partner was correct in general, my opinion actually applied to the particular situation. In doing so, I stumbled around a little, which the client must have interpreted as incompetence, as she complained to the partner that I didn’t know what I was talking about.

  7. I’ve been fortunate to have worked with some very capable, bright, responsible people. People that don’t cut it don’t last that long around here.

  8. No.

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  1. have you ever had to take your performance down notches to ‘fit in?’
  2. have you ever had to cover up a ‘leads’ major screw-up?
  3. how do you not roll over a ‘lead’ just by virtue of doing your job?
  4. have you ever had a job where you were operating at about 5% throttle while getting all of your work done plus others?

No.Not major, but he treats me well so I never throw him under the bus. Never happened.Yes. Currently. Not 5% but about 25% a lot of the time. Hence my stupid amount of posts…

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Dude, I’m a retired US Navy CPO. In the civilian world there is no one that can compare to my leadership skills and ability to simply get shit done. There is no way people above me won’t get run over if they don’t get out of the way.

Which is why I’m now the plant manager and there is a pile broken bodies left lying on the side of the road behind me.

So 1 and 2 are no’s - it never crossed my mind

3 - Who gives a rat’s ass.

4 - after my 3 cups of coffee in the morning there is no throttle, just get the fuck out of my way.

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Ha! Roger that Chief!

CDR vibrolux, USN (retired)

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  1. have you ever had to take your performance down notches to ‘fit in?’
  2. have you ever had to cover up a ‘leads’ major screw-up?
  3. how do you not roll over a ‘lead’ just by virtue of doing your job?
  4. have you ever had a job where you were operating at about 5% throttle while getting all of your work done plus others?
  1. No, but I did start watching reality TV in order to participate in water cooler discussions
  2. Yes
  3. You smile and nod a lot and then do what you would do anyway, quietly, all while trying to get a sense if being a steamroller would be a positive or negative thing to senior leadership. If negative, you look for another job where they’re a type of crazy that you understand and GTFO.
  4. I quit, because ain’t nobody got time for that.
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  1. have you ever had to take your performance down notches to ‘fit in?’

  2. have you ever had to cover up a ‘leads’ major screw-up?

  3. how do you not roll over a ‘lead’ just by virtue of doing your job?

  4. have you ever had a job where you were operating at about 5% throttle while getting all of your work done plus others?

  5. no. My peers have generally been good performers, so the bad ones would be the ones who don’t fit in.

  6. If ‘lead’ means ‘leader,’ then yes.

  7. It sounds bad, but I’ve never cared. Either the leader realizes he has capable people working for him and uses that to his advantage and encourages good performance (heck, it makes him look good if he can take some of the credit), or he resents and denigrates people who might make him look incapable. I’ve experienced plenty of both. One supervisor talked to me about what really amounted to me and another person setting a better example for the subordinates than he was.

  8. Yes, but my supervisor didn’t expect much of me and was one of those people who didn’t want anyone upstaging him. I had someone else give me work to do (not their work, just work that went to the general pool of people in the office) and they signed their name to it after verifying it was correct. It was really stupid. I didn’t even care about getting credit…I just wanted experience and someone who could teach me, which was what the other person did.