[cableshaft]

> show up to meetings, do good-enough work and be polite and friendly to your coworkers...as a lower-than-average-performer

I'd argue that this shouldn't be considered 'lower than average' performance. It should be considered average. And based on some companies I've been at, that should probably be considered above-average.

I know that's often not the case by managers and executives (hell I just saw an article about a CEO that is running an AI startup and tells people in interviews that they're expected to work 84 hour weeks[1]), but employees should really push back and insist that this should not be considered 'below average' performance.

[1]: https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/greptile-daksh-gupta-8...

[2rsf]

You are right, but Microsoft (a small local site of a few years ago) disagreed- "meet expectations", which in my eyes is close enough to average if the expectations were set correctly, was consistently treated as bad or lower than average.