The key to career advancement is appearing valuable despite all hard evidence to the contrary. … If you add any actual value to your company today, your career is probably not moving in the right direction. Real work is for people at the bottom who plan to stay there.

Scott Adams
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If you add any actual value to your company today, your career is probably not moving in the right direction. Real work is for people at the bottom who plan to stay there, and so they often do not contribute much value their own bosses. The job of middle management is to weed out those who are either incompetent or uninterested, and those who stay too long usually become irrelevant at the bottom of the food chain. This quote appears as a warning to those who aspire to higher levels of employment as it suggests that they must first prove their value to the organization before they move up the ladder.

Source: This Is The Part Where You Pretend To Add Value

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