Making you feel important is the lie…
They will replace you in a heartbeat if you start having requirements
Almost every single time I hear someone saying this, it’s impostor syndrome talking.
My partner is the worst for this. She’s out there killing it and everyone says she’s doing great, and then she’s like “Oh, I’m just learning still, I don’t think I want the promotion they’re pushing on me yet”. Come on, just acknowledge that you know a lot more than you give yourself credit for and other people see it.
Ask her if she is even good enough to have imposter syndrome?
I eventually got over that. I feel incompetent pretty often but I doubled my salary in 4 years.
Exactly. I know nothing and I’m not important, that’s how it should go
Yep.
I’m now old enough that I’ve been here longer than the really eager and overachieving youths who did the management pipeline.
I have become a fixture, my name is now a role.
When I train somebody new and I have to remember the actual rules and SOPs instead of all the ad hoc ones I made up.
“Official” vs. “how the workplace actually functions.”
You know your job so well you have to look up what to formally tell them before teaching them the way people in touch with reality operate 😆
Just answer everything with, “How about we- AHHHH SNAKES!!!” And this will get you out of trouble.
