Quitting. Especially effective in the Midwest U.S. where jobs are more scarce and employers tend to take you for granted.
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Ask HN: What's your favorite corporate power move?
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#22Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite corporate power move?
#23Refusing to sign NDAs and non-competes
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#24How are these power moves? They transfer your power to someone else? Showing up late for a meeting purely to waste time tells the other person you are extremely inconsiderate and someone they should actively avoid. If I value my time, why would I spend any of it around you?? The rest of these things are just extremely rude, I cannot understand why you'd call them 'power moves'. They show insecurity and a desire to de…
Sometimes rude is necessary to communicate a point or just moving shit out of the way.
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#25"Per my previous email" is my favorite. I usually attach the prior email that answers the question.
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#26Having confidence in myself and my own future. Enough so that I can say exactly how I see a situation and I can deal with the consequences whether positive or negative.
To add to my comment, having learnt this 10 years into my career, I feel like this thinking is a virtious circle. If I am able to communicate exactly what I am thinking in a diplomatic manner, the more it is appreciated and the more success I have. This leads to greater confidence and the more I express myself in such a fashion.
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#27How are these power moves? They transfer your power to someone else? Showing up late for a meeting purely to waste time tells the other person you are extremely inconsiderate and someone they should actively avoid. If I value my time, why would I spend any of it around you?? The rest of these things are just extremely rude, I cannot understand why you'd call them 'power moves'. They show insecurity and a desire to de…
They're certainly quite rude.
It's possible the OP isn't sincere in asking for more ways to be rude.
In a sense, being rude is a signal of power, because if you're rude and not powerful then you'd get punished for being rude. (As you say, I wouldn't wanna work anyone who behaves so rudely, though). https://medium.com/incerto/how-to-legally-own-another-person...
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#28"Per my previous email" is my favorite. I usually attach the prior email that answers the question.
Isn't this passive aggresive? Would you do this in real life? I feel like this thinking would breed bad culture and is a short-term win at the expense of a long-term relationship.
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#29Giving my boss a heads up that I was gonna quit if things didn't change. Things didn't change, so I quit. They had almost no other technical staff so they called me asking to fix "just a couple little things". I quoted my rate at 300$ an hour, minimum 20 hours. They balked. Three days later my former boss calls me and agrees. I ended up billing 80 hours.
Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite corporate power move?
#30"Per my previous email" is my favorite. I usually attach the prior email that answers the question.
Isn't this passive aggresive? Would you do this in real life? I feel like this thinking would breed bad culture and is a short-term win at the expense of a long-term relationship.
"It depends". I've used this when someone is claiming to their boss that we never communicated something, generally in situations where we've been communicating like crazy, but possibly not with them directly, but via emails to the several affected parties.
Generally I assume that the person is just forgetting because they are very busy rather than out to get me, but, nevertheless, you have to defend yourself against that sort of thing. Passive-aggressive in this case is superior to aggressive-aggressive. If you don't defend your reputation, nobody will.