I have received at least 4/5 rating every year in my 10+ year career and would consider myself objectively a high performer. Still, at least once probably every two weeks I am having a day where mentally I need to check out, attend meetings and do nothing else. It’s not due to burnout or dislike of my job, I am quite fond of it. Likely more so a symptom of undiagnosed ADHD and procrastination that comes along with it. While I realize many remote workers live like this daily, I suspect most of them are not consistently rated highly or have ambition to ascend. Curious to other high performers, do you still have days of minimal output often? *Not Slack off as in turning off Slack, slack off meaning ‘to work less hard or to be less than is usual or necessary’ #burnout #depression #mentalhealth TC 250k
At 250k, you aren't paid enough to be working very hard every day. Everyone has slow days where they check the news and shop amazon and book a dentist appointment and space out through a couple of meetings. Maybe look at some code and try to read some documentation but keep getting distracted.
I love how out of touch FAANGers are to how much money 250k is in most of the country. I work remote in MCOL and likely only surgeons and lawyers make more money in my geography.
From my perspective, it's odd that you see surgeons and lawyers as being a much different higher paying career category. When I meet lawyers and doctors, I don't assume they earn any more than me.
What's a 4/5 in this case?
4 out of 5?
In your post, is the 4/5 Meets expectations or something?
Take a day off to sustain the engine
Why waste vacation days when you can pretend to have worked?
All the work is pretend.
Bold of you to assume many remote workers are not High performers. In fact I have met more high performers that are remote. Some even manage 2 jobs at the same time. In office space it's much easier to slack off: oh let's take a lunch break, coffee Break , smoke break, commute time or let's chat with that coworker. So many distractions
Sooooo many distractions in office.
Sorry I meant many live like this daily. I am a remote worker lol.
I got Top Tier or HV3 the last 5 years in a row and promoted twice as a remote worker so… Your premise of ‘many’ remote workers being slackers is wild. People in office are simply keyboard clicking until 5pm rolls around, the illusion of being ‘busy’ in office when you actually get little done is real. I slack off a lot, I work 20-30 hours a week. Those who grind 40+ hours a week are tools if they think they’re ‘better’ cuz they work more, when it’s the exact opposite - they are inefficient and can’t zoom out to optimize their workload to work less.
Typical RTO day: arrive at 9:30 for free breakfast, bs an hour, get free lunch, leave around 2pm
Same ish perf for me (I’ve got at least 7/9 every year). I do like 1 or 2 days of hard coding and then the following day is like dealing with code reviews, responding to emails, investigating some BS issue that’s clearly caused by some other team etc
Yea same. These days are just KTLO mode which I can do with minimal effort.
Weekly. I also have ADHD and struggle with depression and am on the spectrum. I am also a high performer, both in ratings and ranked against peers. I plan one day per week to not work. I’m fully remote so it’s easy to do while managing perception. Usually I plan for that day to be Fridays but if it needs to be earlier then I do that. Depending on my manager, sometimes I tell them what I’m doing or sometimes not. Right now I don’t have a manager I can tell, and that’s fine.
How do you manage to focus and work consistently with ADHD? I struggle with it a lot and often find myself slacking on weekdays and then completing everything during the weekends under a lot of pressure.
Honestly, I moved into a role with less deep focus work and more dopamine hits. I’m in sales now. Ever since day 1 I’ve been top 5 by revenue generated and with that comes the flexibility to do whatever I want as long as I can get deals closed. I struggled for a couple years as an SDET. Am doing much better now
If you're worried about having days where you don't get things done, it may help to consider organizing your agenda so that you can still make use of that time. Meetings when you're low on brain fuel is already a great start. One of the keys to dealing with this kind of thing is to accept that your performance is variable because your body is variable. Even your diet and exercise routine affects how productive you can be. That upshot is that you're going to have some variability of mental performance. If there's some variability you can predict, like a need to decompress, then it may be possible to simply schedule that in. Highly productive people even recognize that these fluctuations happen across the different hours of the day and schedule tasks of varying difficulty accordingly.
All the "high performers" are out building their companies. You and everyone else on Blind are just plain mediocre
Shouldn’t you be busy building and not arguing on blind? I suppose you are calling yourself mediocre.
On peut faire les deux.
Lol wtf? Why do you think remote workers are less capable of being high performers? You sound like a micromanaging senior manager plant.
Poor reading comprehension. He said many, not all.
Tell me OP is a boomer w/o telling me he’s a boomer