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Politics in the workplace is exhausting. I refuse to play these games, which is probably to my own detriment. I shouldn't need to promote and sell my ideas to anyone. I'm paid to provide my skills and ideas, and if the people around me don't find them valuable, that's on them. I'd rather move on to places that do value them, than engage in politics. > Some program of work will be funded whether you do this or not. However, if you don’t do this, you have no control over what that program is. Why would I want control over that? I share my technical opinion, and it's up to the team or higher-ups to decide which direction to go in. Besides, who says that my opinion is correct, anyway? It should be held to the same level of scrutiny as anyone else's. This idea that engineers should constantly push for their ideas to be implemented, and to take on projects with the highest visibility, is incredibly toxic. It leads to a culture of obsession over KPIs, OKRs, and other pointless metrics, where people prioritize work that looks good on their record when it's time for a promotion, rather than doing work that has a positive impact on the product, no matter how small. It's all a theater, and I refuse to have any part in it. |