[jrace]

I am feeling the same way. Finished last year with the exact same performance review scores as my coworker.. someone who admits to never checking emails, ignoring assigned bugs, and refusing to check the ticketing system.

After hearing this person bragging about 'being an asshole stops people from asking him to do work' and the getting the same raise I did has caused me to rethink my work methods.

It is difficult to change, but being a hard working people pleaser seems to be no longer valued.

[toomuchtodo]

It never was valued. The circumstances didn’t change; the collective delusion is simply evaporating (“quiet quitting” colloquially). It was always about shareholder value.

You don’t get paid for working hard, you get paid at the intersection of what you can project as value delivered and what comp your employer is willing to part with to retain your role.

And if you’re working hard and not seeing more comp, why are you working hard? If you enjoy it, by all means, proceed. But don’t be shocked when others are optimizing for a paycheck alone. It is an economically rational decision.