Tag: employment
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Quiet Quitting does not exist
The term “quiet quitting” has been used as an umbrella term for a series of measures that workers have been taking to adjust their workload and scope of work to their current remuneration or position. The thing is, in a capitalist society, quiet quitting doesn’t exist! Story time! My family wasn’t necessarily poor when I…
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Stop! Don’t become a manager
If you’ve been working in the technology field for some time, you may have witnessed it happening, either in your own team or elsewhere: higher management decides that the team needs a manager, they choose the best engineer from the team, and after a while, that person proves to be a bad manager, either because…
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Career is a ladder not a staircase
Hiring is a costly task that involves the time of everyone involved, so hiring managers and recruiters are looking for people with whom the company can have a long-term relationship. You may have seen this before, whether you were looking at someone’s profile on LinkedIn or receiving a resume to evaluate. The person has exactly…
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You were just another employee
The past few months have been stressful for those who work in technology, whether you work for a Big Tech, Scale-up, or Startup. Whether due to legitimate economic reasons or simply pressure from Venture Capitals, we have been seeing almost monthly mass layoffs. Employees with years of service are writing on social media how shocked and sad they…
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Não acredite em vendedores de sonhos
Eu sou nascido no final da década de 80 no Brasil e eu me lembro de crescer vendo o fenômeno das escolinhas de futebol, para aqueles que não são dessa época, essas escolas tinham placas anunciando programas de parceria com times da série A do Campeonato Brasileiro, algumas delas chegavam a enviar “olheiros” para escolas…
Thoughts from Phil 