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Successful people are people who always give one hundred percent, who understand that a company's success depends on an individual's determination to excel. You may say to yourself, "I am an insignificant person in this big company. I could be laid off tomorrow along with five hundred of my fellow workers, and no one would care." The truth is, what you do is important to people who are important. While you may, indeed be one of many, your labor can benefit someone who is, in fact, genuinely important.

Date: 2005-09-09 05:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sierra-nevada.livejournal.com
"They also serve, who only stand and wait."

Date: 2005-09-09 06:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] elfric.livejournal.com
Note how it never even implies that the person doing the actual work is "genuinely important". Only the managers get that distinction. Feh. Where did you find this gem?

Date: 2005-09-09 07:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] elfs.livejournal.com
It's a parody. You think I would post something like that if it were authentic, without commentary? It's a motivational leaflet given to the hero of the book Resume with Monsters, a lighthearted comedy about the office that administers Earth's contact with the Cthulhu Mythos.

Date: 2005-09-09 07:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] elfric.livejournal.com
Ah. In that case, I am, indeed, suitably amused =)

Date: 2005-09-09 07:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] riverheart.livejournal.com
Right-o, so be grateful that unimportant little you is permitted to have a job serving the important of the world.

Date: 2005-09-09 08:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] drewkitty.livejournal.com
One of my company's few saving graces is that our line employee is the most important asset in the company, and the rest of us are fluff.

Occasionally senior management reminds junior management of this fact.

Date: 2005-09-10 02:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mothball-07.livejournal.com
My company used to be like that, recognizing that the devs, content producers, etc. were as close to actually making something as a company that builds online testing software can be. ;)

Then we got bigger, the managers moved in, and we re-orged. We've lost most of our senior Devs and closed the content dept. completely. Older friends keep telling me *all* companies do that, but I just can't believe it. How big/old is your company, to have kept track of who actually *makes* product?

Date: 2005-09-11 02:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] drewkitty.livejournal.com
Just over fifty years old. We provide security services. Our officers are typically the only people the bulk of our client employees ever see. We recruit our management from within as well. We're also ISO certified (grin) which helps.

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