Calm employee discovers his quiet competence made his good work invisible: 'People who get noticed are the ones who create urgency, send 14 Slack messages, act stressed, then get praised for solving the same issue they made everyone aware of'

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  The calm employee while everyone else stresses out at work

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  I think being the calm person at work has made me invisible?

  
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  The employee calmly resolving everyone's issues at work

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• There is no use in arguing about how the world works. When you are an employee and nobody values what you bring to the table, you have to take action now. Many times in life, if you don't ask, you don't get, but I don't think he needs to ask for something this time; I think it would be better if he communicated his value through his absence. He could take a two-week vacation and never answer his phone, just so the other employees see how valuable his silent work is; of course, that strategy carries its own risks.

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  The invisible employee in his office

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• I don't know how delusional this is, but I would simply try to start communicating what I do, not in a petty way, not like recriminating anything, just saying it out loud. It's a more straightforward way to make everybody notice what you do. When you are about to take care of something, you should be like, 'I'm going to step in and do xyz', so everybody knows what you're doing. I know it sounds silly, but people work like that; they don't see what isn't directly shown to them, and I think that strategy is way more direct than trying to be manipulative with your absence.

  
  
   

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