[alt text: a photo of two kids sliding down two separate playground slides (chutes) that are side-by-side but end in the same place. The left slide is captioned: "Being a slacker at work". The right side is captioned: "Being the go-to-guy at work". The bottom part where the slides meet is labeled: "No raises".]
Maybe the slacker slacks because they've been screwed over on raises and promotions too many times and the go-to-guy just hasn't been there long enough to learn that lesson.
Food for thought.
There are plenty of career Hank Hills and SpongeBobs who are just too dedicated to the job to care about being screwed over.
And Boomers who made their jobs their whole identity while hating their families. So all they have is work, and thus poison the well of work/life balance. Also they refuse to step down from leadership positions that they Peter-principled into.
without actual incentives there's no way to tell the difference between a legit slacker and someone who's just had enough of corporate's shit.
I'm the best worker you've ever had and you'll never know.
Yup. Iโve been both.
I am currently both. But I slack because I am the go-to guy for knowledge, not doing