Geeks at work
16th August 2010
Career guides try to distill jobs into basic components. “Work hard and get ahead.” “Be your own advocate.” That sort of thing.
But anyone who’s been in an office for a while knows that human interaction undermines those components. The real trick — and it takes a long time to learn this — is realizing the work system isn’t a system at all. It’s an arbitrary and ever-changing rule set that often pushes reason to the sidelines.