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Nemo ,

Uhh, what? “Shut up and work, minion”? Didn’t expect to see this on a work reform community. Hell yeah I’m going to continue to demand recognition for my contributions. Staying quiet is how you get taken advantage of.

some people are motivated by external rewards and recognition rather than the inherent satisfaction of the work itself.

Damn straight I expect to get acknowledged and paid. I like working, but putting food on the table, today AND tomorrow, comes first.

What a load of management-apologist, productivity-first drivel.

pizza-bagel ,

Thank you! I thought park of work reform was making the current system work for you to get the most for the least amount of work. Now suddenly that's not ok and it makes you "mediocre"?

I can be a bomb ass employee, if you give me bomb ass pay and benefits. Yes I am going to dance around you highlighting all my accomplishments cause I'm not about to do extra shit for free just cause you didn't notice.

Don't hate the player, hate the game. Silently raging instead of participating isn't hurting the company, they get to pay you less.

cybervseas ,

Yeah that’s pretty gross. At work we did a personality type test and I scored the highest for being motivated by external rewards (i.e. money) and yeah you bet I am! I think we handled it well in our discussion sessions by making it clear that there is no “better” or “worse” things to be motivated by.

But yeah if I do a good job, give me stuff! It works every time ;-)

snek ,
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For me this read differently. Probably because at my company we had one jerk like this. I spent a good year fixing his poorly written code. His only goal was to always make dazzling things that work for a few weeks, enough for him to pitch them, but no focus on clean and sustainable work.

But I do agree, there is a fine line, and lots of places do not give enough recognition to employees.

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