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I have that at the current company I work at

I have that at the current company I work at. Some manager started a successful project with me and the management is too greedy and busy trying to replace me and the manager by bringing in politics, social dilemma and putting layers of management between everyone. Truly a sad state to be in. I learned my lesson as to why you should never truly care about what you do at work. Feels like the project will rather go belly up and disintegrate because of that.

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So, he joined as employee #28 reporting directly to the CEO, then gradually more managers were slotted in above him, then one of the managers put him on a PEP, then he got the hint and left. I wanna say this story is pretty standard, and probably a big part of the reason why people in big companies often don't do great things. Heck, even if you start a project within a company and it gets successful, the company can just slot in people above you, so you become employee #n in a project that you started, and then these people can say you underperform and so on.

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You should care about the work you do. Just remember who you are doing it for. They own the work they being the company. If the company wants to reward incompetent kleptocrats then I salute them as long as I get PAID the second they stops happening they can with the greatest of respect get f’d. then you just take your trade and apply it somewhere else having learned expensive lessons they paid for about what worked.

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> to replace me and the manager by bringing in politics, social dilemma and putting layers of management between everyone. sorry, this seems ... too vague for me to understand what's going on, and how it connects to their greed. are they trying to 'scale up' this project? why aren't they keeping you? replace you how? in what capacity? are you currently wearing too many hats according to them? can you please give some details?

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