[BossingAround]

To me, the article reads as if the author is fresh out of university, hopped up on a number of "we found money wasn't a motivator" studies (which are, in fact, more like "money wasn't a motivator after certain level of money has been achieved").

It's also deeply ingrained with cultural biases, such as "flaunting it" (which is highly normalized in places like Hong Kong or Singapore, but would be a lot more frowned upon in some European places, for example).

My personal 2c is that I have a ton of "recognition" at work. It feels extremely hollow when a VP is "celebrating" what a great job my team has done and yet has no idea what we've done (other than "have satisfied customers"). Words are cheap to me. Might be just me.

Personal recognition is very different (e.g. a colleague saying "wow, I'd have never thought of this workaround") but that has nothing to do with salary or compensation.

[blitzar]

VP: Terrific job this year, everyone gather round and give this team a round of applause, your work has single handedly saved the company.

Bonus time VP: You should see how fast my new tesla accelerates. My new house is so disorientating, all these big rooms I cant figure out what all these light switches turn on or off. Btw the bonus pool wasnt big enough to pay you much this year, but we really appreciate your efforts.

[nine_zeros]

I chuckled because this is really true. All my VP does is meetings (where its chatting about stuff), status reports and the answer to all problems is "hire more"

If only engineers knew what a scam it is to have themselves do all the dev, test, on-call work while all the stock refreshers go to this fool sitting on a chair, all work would stop.

Seriously, America needs to bring back the culture of strikes.

[higeorge13]

Words are cheap in all kinds of relationships. Actions always matter. Hence in the case of work relationships, it’s all about promotions, salary increases, good projects, etc.

[pg_1234]

Yeah ... I work for money ... recognition, friends, fun with cool tech, this I can get from the rest of my life ... as long as the job gives me the ONLY thing it's good for - money.