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Tuesday August 23, 2005
05:36 AM
Jobscurity
Wanting to increase you chances of keeping your job in turbulent times, you might be tempted to shroud your actual work in mysticalities, persuading the power-that-be that:
- your work is vitally important,
- that nobody can do it other than yourself, and
- that the company could not survive without you.
This is the adage 'security by obscurity' applied to your job situation - 'job security by obscurity', or simply jobscurity.
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Jobscurity (Score:1)
We used to have a saying at an old dot.com I used to work for.
Of course it was officially a joke, but I tended to think some people took it seriously.
One interesting thing to note. IIRC in petdance's YAPC::NA presenation he mentioned that if you manage to place yourself into the position you descibe (so vital to the company, you can never be removed), then you are not only preventing the possibility of being fired/replaced, but also the possibilty you mig
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